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tm teutonish, 

an 


international union language . 


by 



elias molee . ph. b. 

n 


teutonish can be understood 
by over twenty millions at first sight; 
that is, by all who understand english 
and an other teutonic language, when 
teutonish is learned, it can b written to 
any person in any part of the civilized 
world, and find interpreters in any city 
of over three thousand inhabitants. 



1906. 

published by elias molee, 

301 post office building, tacoma, Washington, u. s. a. 


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’’Waisenhus Tidende“s Publishing Company 
1013 So. 15th St. Tacoma, Wash. 


Gift 

author 

(Psrjon) 

S M.y’07 


mi teutonish. 

introductory. 

§ i. 

e unnecessary capital letters h for many years bn discarded 
in teutonish. there is also now e lawyer in the city of san 
francisco, California, who uses no capital letters in his writings, 
without any disadvantage t his business, the reasons for this 
simplification v our english language will b explained in e teu- 
tonish grammar n reader. 

12 abbreviations h bn adopted t make writing that much 
easier, e immense value v more abbreviations will b explained 
in e teutonish reader farther on. 

e easiest immediate reform that could b made in english, 
german, Scandinavian n dutch, would b e dropping v e capital 
letters n e adoption v a few abbreviations; z follows:— 
b., be hd, had t, to, too bn, been lis, has v, of, (ov) 

e, the n, and z, as h, have nsf, etc. 2, two,nsf 

we hope that e honorable readers will b indulgent enough 
t tolerate this slight deviation from the standard mode v writing 
in a book on language reform, we all know that there can b 
no improvements without some changes, e author would not h 
dared t deviate from e regular road, unless he hd substituted, 
what he considers a better way for e future, in printing with- 
out ,,caps“, an ,,m“ n ,,w“ quod should b placed after every 
period. 


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teutonish. 


e proposed language contained in this work, is not put 
forth in a dogmatic spirit, but only z a language t serve z a 
basis for farther international negotiations between e teutonic 
peoples. e good will n sympathy v teachers, editors n minist- 
ers are hoped for. 

e author having spent his whole life in studying n teach- 
ing several modern tongues, z well z having studied e new pro- 
posed international languages; z, ,,volap(ik, spellin, pasilingua, 
interpreter, lingua, esperanto, anglo-f ranca n visona , ’ * believes 
that he hs e moral right n e missionary duty t assist his fellow- 
man in this line v thought. 

this book is not put forth, z a matter v money-making 
speculation, but purely for the satisfaction of working for e 
noble ideal v contributing t e reunification v e teutonic people 
on one common language. we know from history that e teu- 
tons, z late z the first centuries v our Christian era, hd practic- 
ally only one language, which they all understood. 

even z late z e time v alfred e great v england, n up t e 
11th century, before e norman-french conquest v england, people 
could go from england to holland, germany, denmark, norway 
n Sweden, n b understood in their own language. e continen- 
tal teutons could likewise come from norway, Sweden, denmark, 
germany n holland, t visit e english teutons n b understood in 
their own language. ,, teutonish", therefore, aims at creating 
a public sentiment in favor v a reunited, common teutonic 
mother tongue for the whole race, z soon z possible. 

in order t prevent e idea that ., teutonish" is a money- 
making scheme, e author hs paid e printer out v his own purse, 
n given e books away gratis, z far z e author's publication 
goes. 

the author hs only published 1,000 copies from e types, 
400 on heavy linnen paper, n bound 400 in cloth with gilt letters, 
t b sent t 400 teutonic universities n libraries in europe n ameri- 
ca for reading n safe keeping. e other 600 copies on thin pa- 
per hs bn sent t a few leading newspapers in europe n america, 
minus about 200 copies t b sent t special scholars upon their re- 
quest free republications by others are desired. 

e writer is willing t furnish this book v teutonish t any 
publisher in europe or america for republication, without pay, 
or without acknowledgement, except t call the language ,, teu- 
tonish". this book is not ,, copy-righted, but equally free t all 
publishers t quote in whole or in part, z may b desired, n sell 
such books in e open market themselves, with such additions, 
abbreviations n improvements z they think proper. 


introductory. 


5 


e author believes that no international language can b 
adopted without e co-operation v e linguists n rulers v several 
large commercial nations. so long z it is left t private men n 
societies, they will naturally neutralize each others’ proposed 
plans by endless discussions n counterplans without any power 
t introduce them into e national schools. no one will h confi- 
dence enough in a private scheme; hence, e national universities 
n governments must find enough good points in teutonish t 
improve n republish it. 

if, on e other hand, the teutons should not find enough 
good points in teutonish t republish, translate, n republish it over 
n over again many times in all e teutonic countries, then e plan 
would not h succeeded even if a very large issue hd bn published. 
1,000 books will, however, b enough t make this scheme known 
t influential men, besides 1,000 books is all that the author can 
afford t print himself n give away, in order t call attention t e 
grandest reunification v our teutonic race, ,,e teutonish union 
tongue. “ 

whenever a teutonic language congress meets, e high de- 
legates will always b allowed t borrow copies v e toutonish 
language for comparison from e universities, where teutonish 
copies are now found, n return them t e universities, after a 
year’s time, or more. 

rev. johan martin schley er, will always h e honor z an 
individual, n germany will h e credit v having produced a plan 
for an international language which has indirectly caused many 
other plans t b set forth; z, “idiom neutral ” spelin, esperanto, 
lingua, interpretor, pasilingua n anglofranca. e author hs re- 
ceived many suggestions from all e foregoing efforts in this line 
v study in his later improvements v teutonish; but he hs fol- 
lowed his own inner light n heart in e construction. 

e author v teutonish does not claim t know z many lang- 
uages, z rev. schleyer, nor z many z max miiller v england, nor 
jakob grimm v germany, nor z many languages z rasmus rask 
v denmark, but e author has tried t b thoro ine teutonic group; 
z, english, german, danish, norwegian, Swedish, dutch n anglo- 
saxon. besides a general knowledge v greek n latin, he hs 
studied a little french, Spanish, italian, russian, turkish n Chinese, 
t find, if possible, some good principles which might b adopted 
wholly or partially into teutonish, t make it a more perfect 
medium for receiving n imparting ideas n feelings on all branch- 
es v thought. 

a knowledge v many foreign tongues, however, is not 


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teutonish. 


enough t a production v e most perfect language scheme, 
there must b added a high degree v inventive n constructive 
ability, t reach e best n simplest rules v grammar n t find e 
best prefixes n suffixes. there must also b a philosophic in- 
sight into e mental effects v certain derivations n compound- 
ings, to all this there must b added such a taste n love for 
language construction, z t force e man t work for it regardless 
v fortune or fame, n even then he may make a poorer language 
scheme than he wished t produce. every thing really great 
must b a result v sincere love n Christian faith. 

teutonish was written at first only for a few leading ling- 
uists, publishers n governing persons, n if they shall think it is 
worthy v farther development, they will know how t promote 
it; but if e leaders v thought n action among e teutonic peop- 
les shall not think this language scheme would b useful t e teu- 
tonic race, they will let e scheme die. 

e author hs given his f ellowmen his best ideals. some v 
e suggestions in this book, sent out t so many universities n 
thoughtcentres, will probably find favor sooner or later. this 
sweet hope is e only earthly reward e author looks for, while 
thanking god for his daily bred without receiving any money 
for adding this humble contribution t e international language 
question. 

having a taste for missionary n humanitarian ideas, e 
author feels that it is so much more his duty t sacrifice both 
time n money for e good v his own race first, n indirectly for e 
good v e world. 

e learned readers will undoubtedly find many defects in 
e author’s english, but in a scientific work, like e following, e 
ideas, it is hoped, will b regarded more than the style, altho 
both are valuable. it is easy for a norwegian-german linguist 
t miss some fine english idioms, altho born in e united states 
1845, of norwegian parents. 

§ 2 . 

e teutonish name . 

inasmuch z english, german, dutch, danish-norwegian, 
Swedish n icelandic belong t e teutonic language family, z con- 
tradistinguished from the french, Spanish, italian n Portugese, 
e romanic, or latin language family, or from e russian, polish 
n bohemian, e Slavonic group, “teutonish” seems t b e clearest 
n most suggestive name that can b found, n which is already 


introductory. 


7 


well known t e world. “ic” or “ik” is not a genuine teutonic 
suffix, while ish (isch, isk) is; hence, “teutonic’ ’ hs bn changed 
t “teutonish” . this modification will give e language a more 
separate n specific meaning. “teutonic” may still refer t e 
“teutonic” peoples in general, while “teutonish” will more 
particularly suggest e proposed “teutonish union tongue”, 

“teutonish” is constructed on e same principle, z e 
words “english, irish, Swedish, danish. hollandish, childish 
(kindisch)”, nsf. our standard dictionaries call e english, ger- 
man, Scandinavian n dutch tongues “teutonic” on account v e 
grammar n e common everyday words. bos worth in his ang- 
lo-saxon dictionary takes pride in e fact that english is a teu- 
tonic tongue n derived from e teutonic peoples, “who has”, he 
says, ‘ ‘brought into e world all the political n religious freedom 
among men.” this is more particularly true ve Scandinav- 
ians who founded n organized e english government, it is most- 
ly from e teutonic northmen, e old vikings, that england hs 
received its strong active iron will. 

max mu'ller, e learned professor v oxford university, eng- 
land, in his “ Science of Language ” , first series, page 80, sec- 
ond lecture, says: 

“It is indifferent by what name the language spoken in 
the British Islands be called whether English, British, or Sax- 
on; to the student of language English is Teutonic, and nothing 
but Teutonic”. 

e renouned comparative philologist goes on to explain 
that it is e grammar, e life blood v e language, which determ- 
ines its place in e family n not e dictionary. altho over half v 
e english vocabulary is v latin n greek origin, english is, never- 
theless, a teutonic tongue, z much so z german, Scandinavian n 
dutch. english is a branch v e low-german language; that is, 
e language v e lower countries near e german ocean, or north 
sea. 

if e dictionary were e criterion v a language’s place, even 
german, Scandinavian n dutch would h t b called latin or rom- 
anic on account v e vast scientific terminology. bearing these 
facts in mind, e author hs not bn able t find a better general 
name for e union tongue than “teutonish”. it is a pure home 
race word, meaning e people. if we hd called e proposed union 
tongue “saxon”, or “anglo german”, or “anglo dutch”, it 
would h excluded e Scandinavians, e oldest n purest (least 
mixed) v e teutons; hence “teutonish” is probably e name, 
that can most easely b ratified by a general teutonic language 
congress. 


8 teutonish. 

§3. 

what kind v international language? 

3 main plans h bn proposed; 1) t make a new philosphical 
language that should b developed out v entirely new n impartial 
material, 2) t agree upon an existing language, z, english, 
german, french, Spanish, italian or norwegian, 3) make a new 
union language by taking e most easy international words al- 
ready understood by a great number v persons in different parts 
v e world, n combine such words by phonetic spelling n an easy, 
regular n simple grammar. e 3d one is e method now almost 
exclusively advocated. 

this is e method v “idiom neutral” n “esperanto”, but 
which are almost entirely based on latin, n are, therefore, rom- 
anic union tongues, z teutonish is a teutonic union tongue, 
idiom neutral n esperanto h bn constructed by latin students, n 
are easy t learn t latin scholars n e people v e romanic or latin 
countries; z, f ranee, Spain, italy n portugal. no one hs advo- 
cated e idea v basing e much longed for international language 
upon e Slavonic, Semitic or mongolic tongues. e conflict then 
is, n will therefore b, between e teutonic n romanic races, z t 
who shall h e honor n privilege v furnishing e basis for a de- 
sired international tongue. 

“idiom neutral” n “esperanto”, e 2 latin tongues now 
pushed forward with most vigor, is v course, partial t latin 
terms, z “teutonish” is partial to teutonic words; hence, those 
latin union tongues are most favored in latin countries; z, 
france, spain, italy, portugal, mexico n south america, while 
there hs bn little interest taken in those new daughters v rome 
in england, germany, holland n Scandinavia. history n blood 
will count, even where we do not expect it. 

z this teutonish language scheme hs bn revised by a coun- 
cel, consisting v an englishman, mr. e. c. hillberry; a norwegian 
minister, rev. d. j. o. westheim; a german scholar, mr. karl 
ziehr, n e author, e pronoun “we” is used here to represent e 
majority oppinion. 


§4. 

an honest basis . 

“idiom neutral” n “esperanto” take not only such com- 
mon words v conversation, commerce n literature; z, pater , 
terra n libro (father, land n book) from latin sources, but also 


introductory. 9 

all e words v e arts n sciences; that is, e latins h taken e whole 
cheese, n the teutons h bn given only e smell v it. we enter 
a protest against such unfair divission. there is no justice in 
such divission. 

e teutonish plan is t take e 20,000 most common words v 
conversation, commerce n literature from teutonic sources, n 
take e 100,000 terms v e arts n e sciences from e romanic sourc- 
es, z those international words are now found in french, Span- 
ish, italian n Portugese, n modified only so far z a regular 
grammar n phonetic spelling may require. a full language, 
after leaving out some obsolete terms n useless synonyms; z, 
“paternal” for fatherly; “maternal” for motherly, “sororial” 
for sisterly, nsf., will now contain about 120,000 words, more 
or less. 

20,000 v e most common words h bn given t e teujtons, 
because, when spelt phonetically, they are on an average e 
shortest n most convenient words for this pnrpose; z, “land” 
for terra; “buk” for man” for /&orao; “haus” for dom- 
us or maison; “kom” for verier; “go” for alter; “hei” for alta , 
nsf, 100,000 terms v e arts n e sciences t remain z now from 
latin n greek sources as in e latin tongues, this plan is cert- 
ainly more just n brotherly than e plan v “idiom neutral” n 
“espiranto”, which are so neutral (?) n so impartial (?), z they 
boast, that they h taken all e words required, or nearly so, 
from latin sources, thus making e poor forgotten teutons learn 
all e new words, while the romanic peoples know e words be- 
forehand. 

“teutonish” divides e vocabulary so z t let e teutons 
learn many latin or romanic words, n let e latins learn many 
teutonic words, thus meeting one another part v e way n divid- 
ing e burden v memorizing new words. “idiom neutral” n 
“esperanto” throw e whole burden upon e poor teutons. we 
object t that kind v divission in e interest v e teutonic people. 

there is more v e spirit v e “middle ages” in classical 
scholars, than many are aware v. rome, at one time, ruled e 
World, n classical students seem t think that rome ought always 
t rule. yet teutonic words are just z old, if not older, than 
romanic ones, n they are just z honorable n sacred, n more 
convenient n more homogeneous n selfexplaining. e romanic 
peoples h only 150 million speakers in e world, while e teutonic 
peoples h over 250 million speakers. 

e teutons is e most educated race, n 4 fifths v all foreign 
commerce is in e hands v e teutonic peoples, hence e common 


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teutonish. 


teutonic words; z, land, father, mother, brother, sister, come, 
go, high, e pronouns, nsf, are practically spoken by 100 million 
more people than e corresponding romanic words, terra , pater , 
mater , frater, soror, verier , alter , a££o, nsf, 

in art n science e romanic terminology is more interna- 
tional, while e common, every day teutonic words are more in- 
ternational by over 100 millions; hence, e justice v taking e 
common ever-recurring words from e teutonic tongues, n taking 
e words v e arts n e sciences from e romanic tongues. 

this is z fair a proposal z will work in practice, z will b 
shown farther ahead. this is z extensive a selection v latin 
words z e now powerful teutons is likely t agree upon, so far 
z e mere international idea goes, but there is something more 
than mere internationality involved; namely, e affections. 

§' 5 . 

must b a living language. 

an extra language for e mere extra purpose v foreign 
commerce n diplomacy, we do not believe will work, we know 
from history, that whenever a language ceased t b spoken at 
home by e common people, it ceased also t b used in commerce; 
z, old hebrew, latin, meso-gothic n old anglo-saxon, nsf. this 
is natural, for it is e common people who prepare e merchand- 
ise, n who conduct e ships t foreign ports; e common people 
constitute over 95 percent v e population, n they do e work in 
running e railroad trains, e street cars, e police force, e stores, 
e schools, e churches, e hotels n e restaurants; e common men 
n women are found every where, while e great directing capit- 
alists are few n generally stay in some private office giving 
orders t their leutenants. this is necessary work, but it will 
not help e international language, for the great capitalists are 
seldom seen by foreign travelers, n they are often uneducated 
men, except in their own special business. 

not more than one person in 10,000 v e people would b 
interested in a mere extra language for foreign commerce n 
diplomacy. they would naturally say, "such extra speech is a 
question for capitalists n diplomats only. our own language 
is enough for us common people on our farm, factory or store, 
we do not expect t deal with foreign commercial agents or di- 
plomats. let e foreign traveler learn our language, if he wants 
t deal with us in our own country, or let e capitalists pay for 
an interpreter. “ 


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"such a language could h no diversified, life-guiding liter- 
ature. only a small percent v e population buy any given 
book. a language for a small class v foreign traders, can not 
support a diversified literature; hence, an extra dead language, 
a mere book language, like latin, without a permanent living 
home basis, will not b worth our trouble v learning it.” 

z an extra international language is only intended t b 
used between foreigners, speaking different tongues, it will 
naturally b so seldom used, n by so few people that, no one 
will get practice enough in speaking n writing such extra home- 
less language, so that he or she could not express themselves 
with ease n grace, when required. 

there is no pressing need for such extra n expensive lux- 
ury z an extra foreign language for foreign commerce only, 
interpreters are plenty n cheap. even on ships t a foreign 
country, it is enough, if e captain understands e foreign tongue, 
yea, even in diplomacy nations get along very well by interpre- 
ters, when necessary. it is certainly cheaper t let a few in- 
terpreters study a foreign language for commerce, than t 
trouble e whole world with such extra homeless language, which 
they need not. 

such extra homeless language would not benefit poor 
working men, women n school children, for they h all they can 
do in mastering their own difficult n irregular mother tongues, 
which according t idiom neutral n esperanto is t remain z they 
are. e idea v constructing an extra international language for 
e extra convenience v a few rich foreign commercal traders n 
travelers is t selfish n narrow-minded t arouse e world into 
action. after e curiosity v seeing how an extra commercial 
language looks, it will b laid aside like a child’s plaything, for 
there is not enough v humanity, s heart in an extra language 
for foreign commerce only. a language must become a good 
living national language, before it can become international, 
enthusiasts may think that a good extra language ought t be- 
come international, but will it become so? e extension v civil- 
ization hs bn essentially an extension v e affections, v human 
sympathy n v brotherhood n sisterhood, n kindness. 

§ 6 . 

e teutonish plan. 

our object is t draw up z complete a scheme, z our limited 
learning, dexterity n philosophic insight will permit, n present 


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teutonish. 


this scheme t e teutonic scholars n rulers for farther consider- 
ation n improvements. after teutonish hs bn sufficiently stud- 
ied n discussed, let its friends petition their kings, queens, 
presidents n legislators t appoint delegates t meet z a general 
teutonic language congress at haag, holland, t revise, extend, 
improve n sanction e study v teutonish, z a by-branch, or supple- 
mentary study for general school geography, 30 minutes each 
day in e common schools v all e teutonic countries, for 50 years 
or more. 

after 50 years, when all teutons then living, will h learned 
e common reunited language from childhood, teutonish then t b 
used for all national purposes in all teutonic countries z their 
lawful common mother tongue. then teutonish would become 
national n become international also without fail. if all e teu- 
tons reunited upon one common, easy, simple, phonetic, regular 
n selfexplaining, living, home language, with all their wealth, 
education, literature, commerce n deplomacy, it would force e 
educated v all other nations t study teutonish in their high 
schools n universities in addition t their own tongues, it would 
become e latin v e future in spite v any counter uninon tongue, 
n e teutons would besides h a much better language for home 
use, then any v them ever hd before — e best human tongue 
ever heard on this earth-ball. that would facilitate education, 
lecturing n preaching at home n abroad. 

with regard t e delegates t e language congress, it would 
probably b impossible t agree on representation, according t 
population, yet this would not b important in this case with 
only one interest t b consulted — a good common language for 
all. one good way would b t let each v e large nations h 5 
delegates; z, united states, england, germany n austria, n let 
each v e small teutonic nations h one delegate; z, holland, 
Switzerland, denmark, Sweden, norway, Canada, australia, new 
zeeland, new guinea n south africa. 

this would make 30 delegates in all, n b a large enough 
representative body v expert linguists, who understood well 
both english n german, n hd also a reading acquaintance with e 
Scandinavian n dutch tongues. english n german are e 2 
foremost languages v commerce; hence, both those tongues 
might b used at e language congress v linguists. 

after e teutonic language congress hd agreed on e spel- 
ling, grammar n vocabulary v 20,000 words, e delegates could 
agree upon a general school geography t b written in e teuton- 
ish union tongue, t b studied in all teutonic common people’s 


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schools half an hour each day in e geography classes t introduce 
e language n make it generally known thruout e world. 

according t this plan, there would b no extra expense t e 
people for extra school books, for if geography were studied in 
teutonish, it would not need t b studied in english, german, 
Scandinavian or dutch. neither would there b any loss v time 
t e children, for they would learn geography, while learning e 
teutonish union tongue. 

geography hs bn chosen for introducing teutonish, because 
it is by nature e most international n neutral v all general 
school branches. it is v all school branches that one which 
can best b spared from immediate practical use. besides, geo- 
graphy is e easiest v all studies t children, z it does not appeal 
so much t e higher reflective faculties, z grammar n mathemat- 
ics do. geography study is seeing, hearing n remembering 
only. this agrees best with e childs faculties. it makes no 
practical difference in what good home language geography is 
learned, for the knowledge imparted would b e same, z if 
learned in e old languages. 

e high schools might study history also in teutonish, in 
order t give e language some useful work t do, t become a liv- 
ing national language, for at least geography n history. after 
having read, spoken n written e common teutonish tongue for 
50 years in e geography n history classes, it would become 
more easy than e old mother tongues both in story n song. e 
first lessons in geography might b put into questions n answers, 
t b learned by heart, t promote e habit v talking e language 
in e geography classes. 

romanic delegates would, v course, b out v place in a teu- 
tonic language congress. inasmuch z e plan is t retain e 
100,000 romanic words v art n science, all that latin delegates 
could, therefore, do, would b t tell e teutons what romanic 
words t choose. 

if all e teutons agree upon one good, regular, living, nat- 
ional home language, it will certainly become international thru 
e influence v its great commerce, population n literature, just z 
soon without foreign help z with it. it will b difficult enough 
t e teutons t agree anomg themselves alone. 

§7. 

why unite one race only? 

there is an indefinable difference v taste, feeling n relig- 
ion in different races, which would prevent them from agreeing 


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teutonish. 


upon e same language; neither would they enjoy e same lang- 
uage n literature for home family use, without which no lang- 
uage can become international. 

e same race, however, hs so many words, n so much 
language structure alike, that a union tongue v home race 
words n idioms will b so easy t learn that e union language can 
preserve e old idioms, feelings, phrases n poetry v e old mother 
tongues, n thus make e union tongue e final national language, 
while a more mixed language would please no race, z it would 
become t strange n difficult t e common people in all countries. 

we must also look ahead n remember that, if a good latin 
language, like “idiom neutral” should b so thoroly studied in 
our schools, z t b spoken easily in conversation with foreigners, 
it would soon b used in conversation at home n at last sup- 
press, choke off n kill our teutonic mother tongues. that 
would not b a pleasant prospect for e highly civilized teutons t 
behold. 

other races can, v course, say e same, “if we study teu- 
tonish, it will finally kill our dear latin mother-tongues”, yes, 
but e latin advocates claim that e international “idiom neutral” 
n “esperanto” will not displace e national tongues. besides 
other races h e same right t form union tongues, z e teutons, in 
order t preserve n protect their linguistic material at home in 
a systematized n refined form. we should thus h teutonic, 
romanic, Slavonic, Semitic n mongolic union tongues, only 5 
world languages instead »v 500, n all e 5 regular! 

if other races are not intelligent, active, moral n patriotic 
enough t form union tongues for their own language protection, 
e teutons ougth not t b held back on their account. at any 
rate, there is more justice in e latins learning e more internat- 
ional teutonish, than in e teutons learning e less international 
idiom neutral n esperanto. 

if e teutons would combine on one good, simple, regular, 
selfexplaining, national, union tongue, it would b a great con- 
venience t other nations, z they would then need t study only 
one easy teutonic language n literature, instead v e many dffi- 
cult n irregular existing teutonic tongues; besides e teutons 
could learn twice z much at home with a simpler, more system- 
atic n economical language. if englishmen n germans h not 
enough mutual love for each other t adopt teutonish, they might, 
nevertheless, adopt it for their own sake, n for e sake v hol- 
land, e small Scandinavian countries, e united states n e good v 
e world. 


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§ 7 . 

homogeneity needed . 

if it b true, what most teutonic linguists claim; namely, 
that a language must b homogeneous in order t b mentally 
ecomonical, suggestive n self-explaining, then it seems that, e 
only right way for e teutons, would b t construct a union tongue 
upon their own native materal, so far z e 20,000 common word 
v conversation, commerce n literature are concerned. 

a good language, it is claimed, must start from a small, 
simple, well-known n homogeneous basis, otherwise a language 
will b inferior in aiding n quickening thought; in other words, 
all mixed languages are essentially inferior patched up, spotted 
jargons, but can not b considered good, dignified, artistic n 
scientific languages. 

if e above claim b true that only homogeneous tongues, 
like greek, german, Scandinavian, dutch n anglo-saxon can b 
considered good, while mixed languages like english, turkish n 
chinook are essentially inferior, mixed jargons, then it would b 
best t our children as well *as t e foreigners that we should 
purify english n expel greek n latin, at least from e common 
literary language, where e head n e heart o e people is mostly 
moved. our continental teutonic brothers h valued e homoge- 
neity v e common popular tongue so highly that, both their 
scholars, kings n princes h agitated in favor v expelling greek, 
latin n french for e last 400 years n are still expelling more n 
more foreign words, so that their languages are now homoge- 
neous. 

is such expulsion v foreign words among so highly intelli- 
gent, moral n patriotic people z e germans, Scandinavians n 
dutch merely a result v national pride n pejudice? or is there 
a nesessity t mental welfare n mental health in homogeneity v 
language? it hs bn pointed out that peoples speaking pure 
homogeneous tongues h always reached e highest stage v pop- 
ular intelligence, z e wonderful greek among e ancient peoples, n 
e germans, Scandinavians n dutch among e modern peoples, is 
this fact accidental, or is there a natural inherent value in 
homogeneity v language. if there is, now is e time for us t 
find out, before we choose a national or international nnion 
speech, for the future, all our teutonic tongues need repairing, 
for they are getting t old n behind time t future welfare. 

e Sanscrit is said t rest on 450 basic words, n e greek t rest 
on only about 700 basic words; n yet e deep philosophy v india, 


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n e high intellectuality v greece are based on these few words, 
together with a liberal amount v prefixes, suffixes n transpar- 
ent compounding. in order t obtain a clearer insight into e 
nature v a good language, it will b well t study ”§ 9“. 

§ 9. 

e 4 fundamental principles. 

there are 4 great fundamental principles in language con- 
struction, which should b learned by heart n printed with full 
face type; namely: — 

1 — e ease v e suggestive action is strong in 
proportion t e number v times e words n ideas h bn 
associated in consciousness. 

2 — e more mental energy required t master e 
words, e less mental energy is left for e ideas con- 
tained. 

3 — language should proceed from e known 
t e unknown. 

4 — language should proceed from e simple t 
e complex. 

it is not necessary t prove at length that e foregoing 
statements are true. those learned readers for whom this is 
written, will understand that they are true without proof, for 
e benefit, however, v less philosophical minds, we may say 
briefly 

1) that words often heard calls up memory n e sugges- 
tive action more easily n quickly, than words seldom heard, 
there can b no doubt about that, which is e first principle. 

2) when we translate a half-learned foreign language, 
we h so much trouble in mastering e separate words that we do 
not clearly understand or feel e force v e ideas contained, n that 
is e 2nd principle. 

3) when we start from e known words; z, fish n lore n 
say fishlore, we understand e new unknown term at once, while 
if we say, ichthyology , we sin against e 3d fundamental 
principle. 

4) when we start from e simple words arm n bone n say 


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armbone, we do start from e simple t e complex, while if we 
say humerus , we violate e 4th principle. yea! we violate all 
e 4 principles v good language construction by saying ichthyology 
n humerus , instead v saying ”fishlore“ n ’’armbone*'; z e con- 
tinental teutons say, fischlehre , n armbein, or fiskeloere n 
armben. 

if e aforesaid 4 fundamental principles v a good language 
construction b true, then it follows that only homogeneous 
tongues can b good in e highest sense v e word, if it b true 
that, ”e ease v e suggestive action is strong in proportion t e 
number v times e word n idea h bn associated in consciousness “, 
then it will b required t choose such words or combination v 
words, which memory hs already registered in consciousness; 
that is, take arm n bone n from that develop armbone, n not 
say “humerus”; in other words, build from within n from be- 
low, z e greeks, Scandinavians, anglo-saxons n germans, n not 
build from outside, or from above z e english. there can b no 
solid n pervading harmony in any language, unless it agrees 
with e 4 beforementioned fundamental principles. if we study 
those 4 principles farther, we shall find that they all naturally 
point toward a concentrated homogeneous basis. let us see if 
they do. 

if frequency v association between words n ideas is neces- 
sary t a strong or vivid suggestive action, than it follows that, 
if we want our ideas t b easily understood n remembered, we 
must choose such words z hs bn frequently associated in mental 
experienence, n such words will always b e frequent native 
words heard in childhood, n that implies a small homogeneous 
basis, because only such a basis can naturally h hd e required 
frequency v association between words n ideas. all teutonic 
children h heard e homogeneous words arm n bone; hence arm- 
bone would b more suggestive than e latin heterogeneous hum- 
erus. 

secondly, if it b true that, “e more mental energy re- 
quired t master e words, e less mental energy is left for e ideas 
contained”, then that again points t a small well-known homo- 
geneous basis, for only such basis requires e least mental ener- 
gy for mastering e words n leaves e greatest surplus mental 
energy for e ideas contained; z, armbone for “humerus” n fish- 
lore for “ichthyology.” 

thirdly, if it b true that, “language should proceed from 
e known t e unknown”, than it also points t a small homogene- 
ous basis, because in e experience v childhood, where ideas orig- 


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mate, only e homogeneous native words could b well-known 
ones. 

fourthly, if it b true that, language should proceed from 
e simple words t e complex words, than it again follows natur- 
ally that we must build on e homogeneous, native saxon, teu- 
tonic words, because only such words are e simple ones by 
which we can build up e higher ones; z arm n bone makes self- 
explaining “ armbone ” while humerus is a new wild term with- 
out wit or wisdom. 

t develop language from a few well-known native words 
makes language not only more scientific, but also more poetical, 
concrete n definite. such language would greatly promote 
popular intelligence n honesty, for honesty depends very much 
upon a clear consciousness; hence, no mixed languages can pro- 
duce e most intelligent or honest people. they never h done 
it, n they never will, because they are not understanding-help- 
ing n memory-helping enough. 

e four fundamental principles afore said will not merely 
produce a self explaining n homogeneous langauge; that is, a 
language v one kind or nature or v one cloth, so to speak, but 
those 4 principles require also phonetic spelling n a simple n 
regular grammar. those 4 principles will not only serve z 
guides in construction, but also z a cement, t make e language 
solid, durable, harmonious n e words mutually suggestive n 
neighborly helpful, by excluding e many isolating n solitary 
facts. 

let us see, if this b true. if “e ease v e suggestive is 
strong in proportion t e number v times, e word’ sign or sym- 
bol h bn associated in consciousness, that is, in experience, ob- 
servation, or memory”, then it follows that, there must b only 
one sign (letter) for one sound’ n only one sound for one sign 
or letter, otherwise there cannot b e regular frequency v assoc- 
iation between letter n sound t produce e greatest ease v e sug- 
gestive action. if a given sound is sometimes represented by 
one letter or combination v letters, n at other times by differ- 
ent letters, e solidity v e association in consciousness will b 
broken, n therefore e greatest ease v e suggestive action cannot 
arise. 

science, therefore, requires phonetic spelling, for e same 
reason capital letters must b discarded, because they prevent 
frequency v association between e same sign n sound by divid- 
ing e attention. e only way t keep consciousness alive is by 
repeated restamping. this method will also b e best for e 
outside world, 


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with regard t grammar, we may say that it should h few, 
simple n regular rules. if it b true that “e ease v e suggest- 
ive action is strong in proportion t e number times e word or 
rule n e idea h bn associated in consciousness”, then it follows z 
a necessary corrollary that grammar must h few n simple rules, 
for otherwise there cannot b e required frequency v association 
between e given rule n idea, in order t obtain e highest degree 
v ease n rapidity in e suggestive action. 

let us take an example. suppose there were 10 different 
rules n many exceptions v forming e past pariciple, it is evident 
that each rule could not b repeated in consciousness so often, z 
if e 10 rules were merged into one rule with no exceptions, 
what men speak often they speak easily n rapidly. if all past 
participles were formed only by adding e musical semi-vowel, 
continuous sonant n international suffix en, n no other inflection 
allowed, then “en” would become so frequent z soon to b regarded 
z e natural past participle builder; z given , taken , seen , loven 
worken, comen , proven , helpen, nsf. 

e simpler n fewer e rules are, e oftener will e words b 
seen under e same appearance, n hence so much more readily 
recognized, t increase e suggestive action. e proper function 
v language, z our readers know, is t impart ideas n feelings 
easily. language cannot do this with e greatest mental econ- 
omy n strength in a suggestive action, unless e laws v psychol- 
ogy is obeyed, z concentrated in “e 1+ fundamental principles ”, 
before given. 


§ 10 . 

value v basic words. 

probably e best way v getting a clear idea v e immense 
importance v first impressions, or basic words, is t consider 
their slow n painful origination into e race. 

little children will h t hear e words “father, mother, arm, 
bone, fish”, nsf, many hundreds v times, before e words are or- 
ganically registered in e mind. words n motions are slowly n 
painfully engrafted into memory. think v how many thous- 
ands v times an organ player must strike e tangents before he 
can play easily n correctly. e more tangents he hs t master e 
greater e difficulty. words are like tangents. it will take e 
organ player many years t register in his consciousness e nec- 
essary motions. it takes years v slow n tedious repetitions in 
childhood t register e common native basic words into consci- 


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ousness. is it not then a shame t throw aside those costly n 
precious native words v childhood n elope with foreign italians 
n greeks, n say humerus for “armbone”, n ichthyology for 
, ‘fishlore”; take e foreign paternal n maternal for e native 
“fatherly” n “motherly. “ there is certainly no linguistic 
economy, poetry, patriotism or common sense in such borrow- 
ing v common words, which can so easily b developed from e 
basic childhood words, which h already bn engrafted in memory 
by slow n laborious co-operation V children n parents, repetitio 
mater studiorum est. 

e 2nd fundamental principle v language construction is, 
“e more mental energy required t master e words, e less men- 
tal energy is left for e ideas contained”. if we consider this 
in connection with e slow n tedious process v organically regis- 
tering new words into memory, n consider e amount v repetit- 
ions, thru life, that is necessary t keep e words firmly alive in 
consciousness, it will become clearer t us than ever before, 
what a great folly it must be for a language builder t adopt a 
greater variety v basic words than is needed t express e ideas 
required. 

t show e awful unnecessary n injurious wastefulness v 
mental energy in our english language, let us take e 4 synonym- 
ous adjectives, half, semi, demi, hemi. in all those cases e 
german, Scandinavian n dutch use /half” only; thus: — “half- 
circle, half-moon, semiannual” (half-yearly ;ger. halb-jahrlich), 
demi-mond (half-world;' (ger. halb-velt); hemisphere (half -ball; 
ger. halbbal or halbkugel; scand. halvkugle or halvbal). then 
we h anti, pre n fore ; sur, super n over, nsf. 

let us honestly n calmly consider “half, semi, demi” n 
^hemi” from a scientific view-point, without national prejudice, 
these consideration are intended for e future welfare v our 
country. criticism with any other motive would b ignoble n a 
waste v time. in e 4 adjectives “half, semi, demi, hemi”, we 
h 4 different languages represented, but no new ideas. they 
all mean only “half”. e word “half” is our own honest basic 
childhood word; “semi” is latin; “demi” is french from e latin 
demidius; n “hemi” is greek. here is wastefulness with a 
vengence. whenever “semi, demi” n “hemi” are employed 
it prevents our basic race word ,,half” from being repeated in 
coneciousness, t strengthen e suggestive action, according t e 
first fundamental principle v language construction (se § 9. 

e evil does not stop with e unnecessary ,,semi, demi” n 
“hemi”, but they drag along with themeselves other unnecess- 


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ary words, t b slowly n painfully registered in memory; z an- 
nual (semiannual) for “yearly’ ’ mond (demi-mond) for 
,, world’’, nsf. 

by our borrowing we h compelled e poor working people, 
women n children t memorize foreign terms for simple common 
ideas. for instance, we must learn what “bird” is in anglo- 
saxon, then we must also learn what “bird” is called in greek 
t understand what ornithology (birdlore) means; we must learn 
farther what “bird” is called in latin t know what avis (bird- 
class) means. when we borrow such words; z’ equine, feline , 
canine, nsf, by e thousands’ we must learn what “horse; cat” 
n “dog” nsf’ is called in latin. 

there is no mercy shown t e common people in such bor- 
rowing. in all this latin intoxicated borrowing, we h not even 
benefitted e latin peoples, they must learn our common saxon 
teutonic words before they can understand an english speech or 
book; hence they would h learned t understand our language 
quicker, if we hd clung t our simple homogeneous native words, 
which latin people must master first anyway. 

as a matter v fact, e so called latin international words, 
which esperantists love so much, are e weakest words in all 
non-latin languages, because they are not in harmony with e 
native basic words v childhood. those international latin 
words do not call up natural objects n pictures, z native 
words do. 

we think thru particulars previously memorized. those 
international latin words do not proceed from e known n simple 
ground words; z, armbone for “humerus” n fishlore for 
“ichthyology”, starlore for “astronomy”, plantlore for “bot- 
any”, flow ever own for “corrolla”, fllower stalk for “perianth”’ 
leafstalk for “petiole”, shoulderblade for “scapula”, nsf. if 
we think in particulars, if we must think of a “shoulder” n a 
“blade” before we can comprehend e meaning v e word “scap- 
ula”, if we must employ teutonic words t explain e internation- 
al latin word “scapula”, why would it not b better t say shoul- 
derblade in e first place, n save e time-wasting explanation? 
scapula hides e idea intended, while “shoulderblade” makes it 
clear at first sight. 

i n. 

heterogeneity n indehniteness. 

z we can think only thru particulars, thinking being a 
classification v previous impressions, n reasoning being a class- 


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ification v e relations among impressions, it follows that words, 
which furnish e particular images needed t translate e word into 
thought, must b more suggestive, definite in time-saving, than 
an arbitrary word, which requires extra explanation; z, arm- 
bone n shoulderblade for “humerus” n “scapula”. 

how clear n definite are not such old self-developed, homo- 
geneous, anglo-saxon words; z, “upgo. upclimb, up walk, upsail, 
uprow, upfly, upride?” instead v e indefinite ascend , which 
means t get up in some way, but don’t tell us how. there are 
often cases, when a man would gladly give a large sum v money 
t know how another man got “up, down, in”, or “out”, 
in all cases is definite knowledge worth more than indefinite 
knowledge. we can not tell today t what uses our impressions 
may b put in e future. definite knowledge will, v course, 
make people more intelligent n careful in avoiding unfortunate 
accidents, of which e anglo-saxons seem t have more than their 
share. such generic n indefinite words z ascend , descend , 
bill , condition revolution , estimation , female college, nsf. e eng- 
lish language is full v, n hence, it hs produced an indefiniteness 
n fogginess in english, which foreign linguists h often mention- 
ed. for ascend e germans would speak n write z e case might 
b, aufgehen, aufreiten, aufkletteren, aufsteigen , aufsegelen , auf- 
ruderen, aufreiten (horse-back) auffahren. 

condition in english may mean a state in which e germans 
say zustand (scan, tilstand ) ; “condition” may also mean e same z 
“circumstance”, in which case e germans would say umstand 
(scan, omstand, omstsendighed); or “condition” thirdly may 
mean a “proviso”, in which case e germans would say beding- 
ung (scan, betingelse). 

revolution, may mean a war, a turning around, or turn- 
ing over, or a great and sudden change. e word bill may mean 
a bird’s mouth, a piece v writing, or a law proposal before a 
legislature, or an account, or debt, or paper money. in all 
these cases e rich homogeneous selfdeveloped german, Scandi- 
navian n dutch languages use special definite words, t help e 
suggestive action n produce clear ideas. this shows that bor- 
rowing hs not made our english language richer in words, than 
it would h bn with homogeneous self-development. 

a high legal authority stated some 30 years ago, that e 
people v e united states spent over 19 million dollars in litigation 
on account v e misunderstanding v words appearing in written 
contracts. a few years ago a school superintendent asked e 
children v e 3d grade in a massachusett school e meaning v cert- 


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23 


ain words appearing in their schoolbooks, t find out how they 
understood what they read. among these words were such z, 
mendacious , which was explained t mean “what cannot b mend- 
ed”; tenacious, they thought meant “a ten acre lot”; eucharist 
they said was one “who played euchre’ this shows how 
thought-hiding indefinite n foggy our english language hs be- 
come thru leaving out’our simple well-known basic homogeneous 
cnildhood words, n borrowing e heterogeneous scum from other 
races. it is only e scum that we get by borrowing, for e cream 
v any language consists in e mutual harmony with e basic words. 

§ 12 . 

english oppinions on english . 

what uneducated common people think about their own 
languages is generally chauvinistic, narrow-minded, e of course, 
unscientific, n v no value, so far z new improvements in lang- 
uage are concerned. we shall therefore confine ourselves t 
giving e oppinions v a few v e highest expert linguistic author- 
ities from englishmen n americans. they h told e truth, for 
here, they h not bn bribed by finance, germans, Scandinav- 
ians n dutchmen are already convinced that foreign words de- 
crease e suggestive action v language, n thereby decrease e 
popular intelligence. 

(quotations) 

Prof. James Hadley, professor of the Greek language and 
literature of Yale University, says in his, “ Brief History of the 
English Language” : 

“From the simple word stand, the English makes under- 
stand and withstand ; the Anglo Saxons had “atstandan, be- 
standan, bigstandan, forstandan, forestandan, gestandan, odh- 
standan, understandan, widstandan, ymbstandan” (umbstandan). 
This deficiency (of self development) in English is in a measure 
made up for by the use of separate particles; as, “to stand up, 
to stand off, to stand by, to stand to”, etc. Still the formative 
system of the language has become greatly restricted. It no 
longer posesses the unlimited power of development from its 
own resources, which we see in the Anglo-Saxon and in the 
modem German. If a new word is wanted in English, we must 
often go to the Greek, and find and fashion there something, 
which will answer the purpose. By this process, our language 


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teutonish. 


is placed in a dependent position, being reduced to supply its 
needs by constant borrowing. 

But it is a more serious disadvantage that, in order to 
express our ideas, we are obliged to translate them into dead 
languages. The expressiveness of the new term, that which 
fits it for its purpose, is hidden from those who are unacquant- 
ed with the classic tongues, that is, from the great body of 
those who are to use it. To them it is a group of arbitrary syl- 
lables, an nothing more. The term loses its suggestiveness and 
the language suffers greatly in its power to aid and quicken 
thought.” 


John Stuart Mill, in his “System of Logic,” says: 

“As much meaning as possible should be thrown into the 
formation of the word itself, the aids of derivation and analogy 
being made available to keep alive a comsciousness of all that is 
signified by it. In this respect, those languages have an im- 
mense advantage which form their compounds and derivatives 
from native roots, like the German, and not from those of a 
foreign or dead language, as is so much the case with English, 
French and Italian; and the best are those which form com- 
pounds and derivatives according to fixed analogies, correspond- 
ing to the relation between the ideas to be expressed.” 

Mill says, again, “System of Logic, ” Book IV: 

“A word should be constructed so that a person who 
knows the thing may receive all the assistance which the name 
can give in remembering what he knows, while he who knows 
it not may receive as much knowledge respecting it, as the case 
admits of, by merely being told its name. ’ ’ 


Prof. George P. Marsh, in his “Lectures on the English 
Language, ” pp. 206—7 (Columbia University): 

“The German is singularly homogeneous and consistent 
in its vocabulary. The essential unity of its speech gives its 
study immense value, both as a philological and an intellectual 
discipline, and it has powerfully contributed to the eminently 
national and original character of a literature, which, for a 
century, has done more to widen and extend the habitual range 
of human thought than the learning and the intellect of all 
the world beside.” 


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Again he says: 

“We express most moral effection, most intellectual 
functions and attributes, most critical categories, and most 
scientific notions, by words derived from Greek and Latin prim- 
itives. Such words do not carry their own definition with them, 
and to the mere English student they are purely arbitrary in 
their signification. ’ ' 

In the novel ‘‘A Satire” we find: 

“Surely, far more dear 
Is good, plain English to an English ear, 

Than lisped-out phrases stolen from every clime. 

And strangely altered to conceal the crime. 

Yet, without French, how dull the page would look! 
Must no italics mark when speaks a duke? 

Must peers and beauties flirt in common print?” 


Butler says: 


“Shall men 

Be natives wherever they may roam, 
And only foreigners at home?” 


In Barrett’s “Alvorie,”: 

“All good inditers find 

Our English tongue driven almost out of mind; 
Dismembered, hacked, maimed, rent, and tome; 
Defaced, patched, marred, and made a skorne. 

And were we given as well to like our owne, 

And for to cleanse it from the noisome weede 
Of affectation, which hath overgrowne 
Ungraciously the good and native seed. 

As for to borrow where we have no need, 

It would rise near the learned tongues in strength, 
Perchance, and match me some of them at length.” 


St. Paul in I Corinthians XIV, 9, says: 

“Except ye utter by the tongue words easy to under- 
stand, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak 
unto the air.” 


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teutonish. 


The Me Gregor (Iowa) News, says: 

“The number who believes that our English language 
could be made a much better tongue, is doubtless increasing.’ * 


§ 13 . 

english a national misfortune . 

e honorable teachers, ministers, editors, professors n 
statesmen will, v course, understand that our fight against our 
immoderate use v greek n latin words in our common english 
language is not actuated by any prejudice against our people, 
who are obliged t employ those borrowed words until they 
are officially changed, because our english forefathers, on 
account v e norman-french conquest v england, n later thru 
vanity, did think that those foreign terms sounded more learned 
n fashionable. 

if t our thought-hiding, expensive n time-wasting greek n 
latin vocabulary, we add our unphonetic, expensive, misleading 
n time-wasting heterogeneous orthography, then we can truely 
exclaim: “e english language is a national misfortune. ” this 
is true. no human ingenuity can prove that english is a good 
language english scholars themselves admit it t b bad, yet 
our universities n governments h not hd love enough for poor 
school children n working people t improve it on account v our 
english chinese-like conservatism n indifference. 

spelling is undoubtedly e second great defect v english. 
only 60 words are said t b spelt according t sound; that is i say, 
where each letter hs e original alphabetic sound; z, lo , so, go, 
mind , kind, old, bold, nsf. if we spell “cat”, we say “see — 
ay — tee - sayt.” 

prof, boyd hs estimated that it requires three years long- 
er t our children t learn t read n write english correctly on ac- 
count v e heterogeneous orthography, than it does require child- 
ren t learn phonetic languages like german, italian, welch, 
Swedish, danish-norwegian, dutch n icelandic. a man cannot 
tell how a word should b pronounced by seeing it spelt, n he can 
not tell how it should b spelt by hearing it. we are, therefore, 
handicaped three years for spelling alone. so easy hs e spell- 
ing bn made by german, Scandinavian n dutch scholars that e 
common schools need no extra spelling book, nor dictionary, 
after having learned e letters, e children are set t copy a few 
reading lessons in e beginning, z “busy work”, n then they soon 


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see how e spelling follows e sound with an occasional “h” n “e” 
inserted t lengthen e sounds, n sometimes a doubling v conson- 
ants t shorten e preceeding vowel sounds. is tnree years’ loss 
v time not “a national misfortune?” 

it hs also bn estimated that this spelling causes an extra 
expence v $10 for each child v school age. z we h about 15 
million school children in e united states, this makes a national 
loss v $150,000,000, counting teachers salaries, interest on school 
houses n spelling books for this proportionate study. 

prof, march v Pennsylvania university says that e english 
speaking people lose on an average about 2 years v time in 
hunting up n mimorizing e meaning v foreign terms from dict- 
ionaries n glossaries, on account v our foreign arbitrary borrow- 
ing, instead v forming selfexplaining compound words v native 
material z in greek, german, Scandinavian, dutch n anglo-saxon. 
here is another handicap v 2 years more for foreign words t b 
added t e 3 years’ handicap for spelling, making a total handi- 
cap v 5 years on account v e extra n unnecessary defects v our 
english language. is a loss t e united states v $150,000,000 
yearly n a loss v 5 years in educational progress not truely “a 
national misfortune?” if we are mistaken on this point, we 
should like t b corrected. e figures are not ours, but that v 
american professors. 

will not such a language z our english with its incompre- 
hensible foreign jargon n its difficult spelling, which e prime 
minister v england, mr. gladstone, called, ‘‘e laughing stock v 
e world”, yea, will not such a language decrease e national in- 
telligence n e national efficiency?” why is english borrowing 
n spelling not a national misfortune? is it possible for e aver- 
age anglo-saxon t become z intelligent z it is for e average ger- 
man, Scandinavian or frenchman with e same amount and kind 
v study, if e anglo-saxon is handicaped 5 years by foreign bor- 
rowing n heterogeneous spelling? 

§14. 

our anglo-saxon standing. 

every people is so prone t overestimate their own achieve- 
ments n t underestimate that v other nations, that all national 
self -laudation must b looked upon with suspicion. e cry hs bn, 
,, my country, right or wrong . ’ ’ self-criticism is e highest 
sign v advanced civilization. e nobility v learning n heart hs 
bn set aside in e scramble for our neighbors territory n money. 


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if we analyze comparatively our anglo-saxon greatness, it 
will show up highly in, 3 directions only. in those 3 directions 
we tower over all other peoples, n that is, so far z extention v 
territory, legislation n commerce are concerned, england hs 
certainly done great things in those directions. she hs hd 
special advantages on those points. we know that man is very 
largely a creature v circumstances. england, being an island 
well defended from dangerous neighbors, having hd a fertile 
country full v coal, iron n tin, n near t e sea in e north temper- 
ate zone, n inheriting a vigorous n commercial instinct from her 
teutonic ancestors, she naturally took t building ships. this 
early induced her t build a strong navy t protect those ships. 

having obtained a strong navy, originally for self -protect- 
ion, she used this navy for attacking one people after e other, 
england could attack others while others could not attack her. 
with that navy she could take Canada from france, take new 
york (new amsterdam) from holland n later also take australia 
(new holland), tasmania (van dieman’s land) n south africa from 
holland. with e acquisition v territory would naturally come 
legislation n commerce n e extention v e language. we can, 
therefore see that primarily e greatness v england hs depended 
on her navy rather than upon her religion, or upon her school 
system, her language, or her national internal social arrange- 
ment with its large middle-aged estates. brute force hs bn 
more prominent than intelligence, or morality, e war against e 
Chinese t force on them e opium trade n e treatment v e boers 
does not indicate a high national morality or even a clear fore- 
sight in e governing classes v england. their refusal t reform 
e spelling n e simplification v their lenguage, z other nations h 
done, indicate an indifference t e intelligence v e common peo- 
ple. they h until lately even refused t adopt a good complete 
national school system z their continental neighbors n e united 
state h done long ago. it is, therefore, with regard t exten- 
tion v foreign territory n foreign trade that england hs a high 
standing. 

so far z e united states are concerned, it may b called 
teutonic rather than anglo-saxon; that is t say, e englishmen n 
their decendents are here decidedly in e minority. counting e 
germans in e united states from germany, austria, Switzerland 
n e russian provinces, n their decendents it is estimated that e 
german element alone constitute over 25 millions in e united 
states. then it is estimated that there are about 17 t 18 mil- 
lions inhabitants v Celtic, gaelic n cembric blood; that is, e 


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irish, scotch n welch, t this we must add many more millions v 
teutonic origin from holland, Sweden, norway, denmark n ice- 
land. at last comes e great host v Slavonic, romanic, jewish 
n asiatic peoples, z well z e negroes n indians. 

so far z e territory itself is concerned which england ruled 
for a while, that is only e 13 small states along e atlantic sea- 
board. part v e united states look t england z their old father- 
land, but e largest single element t germany, another part t 
Spain; z, florida, texas, California, arizona n new mexico. an- 
other part look t f ranee, z for instance e vast “lousiana pur- 
chase" west v e mississippi river from lousiana t Canada. e 
united states is really a daughter v western europe. e united 
states is a teutonic rather, than an anglo-saxon country. 

german was so much spoken in Pennsylvania at one time, 
that a vote was taken in their legislature z t whether they 
should use english or german z e state language. english won 
by one majority. 

it is true e united states is a very powerful country, but 
only a small part v this greatness can b asscribed t english blood 
or institutions. our judicial system is distinctively english, 
but our school system is german. greatness hs, in a 
large measure, bn pushed onto e united states, sometimes 
against her will. skilled n unskilled laborers h bn educated in 
europe at great expense n given t us gratis, t open up our new 
n fertile lands, mines n forests, often against our protests. 

while england hs depended on her navy for greatness, e 
united states hs depended upon her cheap lands for power n 
wealth. neither v them h depended upon their language or 
education for their greatness. any language is good enough 
for mere commerce, because people h e “samples n price list" 
t go by, n no extensive education is needed t shopkeepers or 
sailors. e great capitalists are mostly men v limited eduation. 
they h not time or taste for study. an extremely small per- 
centage v anglo-saxons can speak a foreign language. 

england hs bn assisted by a vast foreign commerce n e 
united states hs bn assisted by a vast industrious foreign popul- 
ation. neither v these nations h bn forced t depend upon their 
own intelligence n work t e same degree z e germans, dutch, 
Scandinavians or french h hd t do. climate, geography, secure 
isolated positions n teutonic blood combined h done much for e 
anglo-saxons, while germany was torn asunder by e 30 years 
war n later by internal divisions. if germany hd bn united 
150 years earlier, there would h bn no grand carrier for napol- 


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eon, n no devastation v german territory by him, but napoleon 
awakened germany n compelled her t become a military nation 
for her own national safety. 

as it hs bn, germany owes her unity n her intelligence t 
her self explaining teutonic tongue e same z e greeks did, while 
england n e united states h become great in territorial expansion 
n commerce in spite v her unfortunate spelling n incomprehens- 
ible vocabulary. if e anglo-saxons hd hd so understanding- 
helping n memory-helping language z e germans, they would h 
become far more e leaders v thought n social improvements in 
e world then they h bn. we know v n great reformation or 
any prominent school v thought, or philosophy which ows its 
origin t england. 

e great religious reformation in e 15th century, e greatest 
blow ever struck for free speech n free press, was fought out 
in germany. england followed in a measure, germany n Scan- 
dinavia long ago provided that every child born into e country 
should receive an education, but england hs hardly caught up 
yet. germany again said t e private rail road companies, you 
are impoverishing n oppressing whole provinces t enormously en- 
rich yourselves, therefore, “public utilities’ ’ must b owned by e 
people. most other civilized countries h followed, n lately 
japan hs also followed this example. but e anglo-saxons h 
not reached t this cooperative stage v national development yet. 

germans, Scandinavians n dutchmen h simplified their 
spelling-book n dictionary, while e english speaking nations are 
staying behind, except in land-grabbing n money making. we 
h no court v conciliation, no old-age pensions, no cheap state ac- 
cident insurance, z our intelligent n patriotic teutonic brothers h. 

e germans, Scandinavians, dutch n all other civilized nat- 
ions h adopted e easy n simple french system v weights n meas- 
ure, but our conservative anglo-saxons are holding back. 

count leo tolstoy expressed t an american interveiwer e 
following opinion: “e american nation is prematurely old, is 
materialistically minded n hs no idealism, and their public schools 
are without system.” 

in considering our anglo-saxon standing among nations, 
we can certainly not forget “honfsty n patriotism.” while 
e anglo-saxons are very able seamen, lawyers, mathematicians 
n inventors, they seems t lack community or governmental re- 
gard for e common man, or fidelity t e country z a whole. 

public franchises are given away t corporations for little 
or nothing. corruption is common. compare this with e 


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honest guarding v e public wellfare among our teutonic broth- 
ers. we can seldom undertake a great public construction un- 
less it costs more than originally estimated. 

e continental teutonic people insists strongly on e honesty 
v public men, n if dishonesty occasionally occurs, e officers are 
discharged n punished. there is no white-washing investigat- 
ions. 

e government v e united states (excluding army expenses) 
is said t b e most expensive in e world n t give e least protection 
t e life n property v e common people. this country is more 
full v murders, hold-ups n lynchings than any other civilized 
country at e present time except russia, n it is nearly all done 
by men who can only speak e latinized english language, or 
italians. 

that e germans, Scandinavians n dutch are e most honest 
people in e united states is so well known here, that no unprej- 
udiced person will deny it. we h heard merchants, contract, 
ors n bankers say it over n over again, that they would trust 
germans, Scandinavians n dutchmen, other things being equal, 
sooner than they would trust any one else. they live within 
their incomes n pay their debts. we h not heard v tramps or 
or hold-ups or burglars among germans, Scandinavian n dutch- 
men who h retained a thoro knowledge v their honest self-ex- 
plaining mother tongues. honesty depends much on a clear 
consciousness, which again depends on a clear language, if we 
compare e fatherly care v e german, dutch n Scandinavian gov- 
ernments with e fatherly care v e governments v england n e 
united states, we shall find a great difference in favor v e form- 
er. there * ‘public utilities” belong t e people, by e people n 
for e people; here e rail roads are e basis v nearly all monopol- 
ies. here we cannot get cheap postal packages which would 
help e post office department, pay expenses, because v e oppos- 
ition v e rich express companies, we cannot get secure postal 
savings banks, where e poor working men’s money would b safe, 
on account v e influence v e rich bankers. we can get no in- 
come tax here, because e rich oppose it. anglo-saxon rulers 
seems t b e rich man’s friend n e common man’s enemy, while 
boasting v liberty, z if e germans, Scandinavians, dutch n french 
did not h just z much liberty t work n trade, t act n speak n 
teach z our imperialistic anglo-saxons. altho manufactures 
give e same security, only bankers can issue money. our 
people need more inner expansion than external forceable con- 
quest. e despised foreign nations will soon take care v themselves; 


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let our people unite among ourselves, especially on one com- 
mon easy phonetic, systematic, self-explaining, reunited, com- 
mon teutonic mother tongue. then we could learn from one 
another more than before, n influence e world thru our good ex- 
amples, by our peacable missionary teachers, traders n vast 
allsided literature. 

whenever e germans, Scandinavians n dutch forget their 
mother tongues in e united states, so that they will only under- 
stand english, instead v 2 languages, they will degenerate intel- 
lectually n morally. a man who understands well both eng- 
lish n his mother tongue is certainly more intelligent, than he 
who understands only one language. he hs e means v compar- 
ing. he looks upon e world thru 2 windows. e germans n 
Scandinavians h kept up a knowledge v 2 languages for centur- 
ies, e written n e spoken dialects. e persecuted jews h kept 
up 2 languages for 2 thousand years; hence, they h 2 literatures 
t draw ideas n sentiments from, while a man who knows only 
one language is confined t his own narrow national prejudices. 

§ 15 . 

e english language e poor man’s enemy. 

e poor child in our day v much needed learning among our 
conservative anglo-saxons, must first waste 3 years v time in 
memorizing e awful difficult, heterogeneous english orthography, 
during e few years that he can spare for school life, from 8 t 
14. this prevents him from mastering so much more v geo- 
graphy, history, laws v health, civil service, mathematics, 
grammar, morality n religion. 

when this child grows t b a man or woman then e horrible 
latin n greek robber words stand in his or her way, preventing 
him from enjoying reading life-guiding science, without going 
thru college, or searching thru expensive dictionaries, neither v 
which e poor man hs time or money t do. if he wants t read 
about e beautiful sciense v “plantlore” (botany), then he meets 
such robbers, z corrolla, calix n perianth (blumkraun, blumkup, 
blumstalk). if he wishes t study “bodylore” (physiology), an- 
other set v robbers stand before him with their humerus, scap- 
ula n clavicle (armbon, sholderblad, sholderbon), nsf. 

e poor anglo-saxon working man is, therefore, compelled 
t confine his reading t cheap newspapers n light stories v rom- 
ance, which help him very little t get a true insight into nature, 
mind, or society, or even into true religion. 


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prof. geo. p. marsh v Columbia university in his able 
“ lectures on e enghlish language” says: '‘science hs become re- 
pugnant t e common people on account v so many greek n latin 
terms. * * 

english, besides being a dfficult language t understand t 
children n working people’ is also a harsh-sounding n sissing 
tongue, on account v having t few final vowels n t many ‘ ‘ess- 
es”. “s” is used for 3 purposes — 1) plural nouns, 2) posess- 
ive case, n 3) for 3rd person singular v e verbs; z, “he strikes 
his fists against e posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.” 
in e continental tongues some v e parts v speech require a vow- 
el, either for e first person regular “infinitive” past tense, or e 
same vowel “en” is used t soften e sound of e language, but 
in english no rule requires a pronounced final vowel; hence 
there is a greater crowding together v spoken consonants, than 
in any other language, therefore, english can impossibly b call- 
ed euphonious; z, “strength, strong, lookt (looked), workt 
(worked), posts” nsf. 

prof, hadley v yale university says, “The suppression of 
“e” has also been unfavorable to euphony by producing inf a 
multitude of cases the harshest combination of consonants as in 
hosts, bereaths, texts, shifts, thirsts, bulg{e)d, starch(e)d , 
task{e)d,” nsf. 

§ 16 . 

shakespeare , goetlie , ibsen , tegner , vondel. 

e above named men are considered e greatest poets n 
dramatists in e english, german, Swedish, norwegian-danish n 
dutch languages. they are e greatest in their line among all 
races n ages, since e wonderful greeks wrote their best works. 

many men are afraid t modify n reunite their respective 
languages for fear that their children could not understand 
those great writers. yet those grand men, who were so patri- 
otic during their lives, would not wish e race t b held back on 
their account. altho they were very great poets n dramatists, 
we can hardly say they h helped e race ahead z much z e scien- 
tists, inventors, philosophers n religious teachers h. they ex- 
pressed beautifully n forcably e ideas, which e race hd already 
produced. all their ideas can easily b translated well into so 
rich a language z teutonish would b, n into a speech, which is 
so much like their own in grammar, syntax n vocabulary, even 
sheakespeare who wrote in e mixed english tongue used 75 per- 


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cent v teutonic words. e other great authors, his peers, used 
a still purer teutonic vocabulary in their poetical works. 

it will b well in this connection t remember that, neither, 
Shakespeare, goethe, ibsen, tegner, nor vondel were great on ac- 
count v e foreign words they employed. if mastery v many 
isolated words hd bn e cause v their greatness, then scientists n 
comparative philologists would b e ablest poets n dramatists, 
which is seldom, if ever e case. it is not language , but in- 
vention that makes a poet great. t b able t find e most apt 
situations, n e most striking illustrations n contrasts; t call up 
before e eyes n ears e most vivid n touching objects in nature 
with e most suggestive words, is where e poets strength lies, 
in order t do this with e greatest amount v force n grace a nat- 
ive dscriptive, self-explaining language like e greek n german 
is e best. shakespeare would undoubtedly, with his immense 
power v “invention”, hbn still greater in german, Scandinavian 
n dutch, than he was in english. 

it is a common mistake among half-educated people t sup- 
pnse that e greatness v e anglo-saxons is owing t shakespeare, 
or t e foreign words in e language. we know that e norweg- 
ians h 3 times more ships, n are 3 times more sea-faring than 
even e english, according t population. yet they do not speak 
english. e germans are e most learned people in e world, with- 
out speaking english, n e people v Switzerland are e freeest n 
most democratic people in e world with their “initiative, refer- 
endum n progressive taxation . ” 3 fourths v e swiss speak 

german but not english. e dutch are said the largest com- 
merce in proportion t their population, n their national language 
is not english. e french are very successful financiers, but 
they don’t speak english. 

it is true e common english people are greet readers, but 
they read mostly newspapers n light novels, on account v e 
difficult greek n latin words in english scientific books. math- 
ew arnold says, that a foreign scientific book hs e best chance v 
being translated into german, but a novel hs e best chance v 
being translated into english. prof, marsh says that science 
hs become repugnant t common english readers. educated 
people may think that e greek n latin words are easy, but com- 
mon laborers n children do not think so. 

while e united states n england publish each from 8000 t 
9000 books yearly, mostly novels, germany alone publishes from 
26,000 t 28,000 books yearly with comparativly few novels. 

e intellectual activity v germany is immense, e cause v 


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this is e high learning required v all professional men. lawyers, 
ministers n doctors must all b university men, even e numerous 
villiage justices v e peace must h taken a 4 years course in col- 
lege. their editors n diplomats, n higher army officers are 
highly educated, both in germrn n in 1 or 2 forein tongues, 
while e anglo-saxons are notoriously deficient in foreign lang- 
uages. they cannot know what is thought in foreign countries, 
z well z e germans n Scandinavians. 

§ 17. 

german, Scandinavian, n dutch defects. 

e above named languages are so exceedingly difficult, ir- 
regular n complex in grmmar that, few foreign students or able 
t master them, n therefore they are not studied z much z they 
deserve n z they would b with an easier grammar. 

in 1872 representative scholars from e universities v nor- 
way n denmark met in e city v Copenhagen, n then n there, they 
agreed t abolish all verbal endings for person n number in their 
writings n speaking, n recommended said reform t e editors, 
authors n speakers v e respective countries. e reform hs bn 
ratified by e people so thoroly that only one form is now seen 
or heard; z, ,‘jeg synger, du synger, han synger, vi synger, i 
synger, de synger.” 

in 1679 on e 3d day v june, e french academy after much 
discussion, decreed that e present participle in french should no 
longer b declined for case n number, but always end only on 
ant (our “ing”); z, amusant { amusing). that rule hs bn rat- 
ified by e french people long ago. 

in 1874 on e 31st day v decem&er, post master gen. Steph- 
an v e german empire, issued a general order t all postoffie 
officials, with e consent v kaiser wilhelm, e first. that order 
commanded all officials high n low in e german postoffices t 
learn a long list v new self-explaining homogeneous words t b 
substituted for foreign latin, french n english terms used, so 
that e common german people could understand e official lang- 
uage. that order was acquiesced in by e german congress n hs 
bn ratified by e people long ago. for “postage” they now say 
postgeld or postgebuehr, nsf. 

this shows that language can b changed by man, if he has 
e will n activety. man can change language just z he can 
change e surface v e earth, n make a level road thru a hilly 
country, n take out irregularly standing trees in a forest n plant 


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them in regular rows in a park, with some trimming v e branch- 
es. that is all we are doing, when we make grammar regular, 
we make e rules straight, but do not create new words or mat- 
erial. 

e foregoing events show that, e learned american sancrit 
professor, w. d. whitney v yale university is in e right, when he 
says in his able book Language And The Study Of Language:— 
“Man has power over language to the extent to which he , can 
get his fellow-man to agree with him.”. those few men who 
assert that “ man has no power over language” must b mis- 
taken, z we look at e evidence in e case. man hs purified, sys- 
tematized n changed language many times with premeditation 
n forethought, n z man becomes more civilized, he will b able t 
agree on better n better changes in language. 

civilization is at bottom a mastery over nature, thru 
man’s work with man; hence, e truth v prof, whitney’s state- 
ment that, “Man has power over language to the extent to 
which he can get his fellow man to agree with him.” e 
savage is controlled by nature, but in a civilized state nat- 
ure is controlled by man. man thru work changes natural ob- 
jects t serve him more conveniently. schiller says, “nature 
must b improved by art”. z man advances he becomes more 
n more master over language n nature; he becomes more n 
more self-determined. he can change his politics, bis religion, 
n his language t obtain higher n more godlike ideals n human 
virtues. 

that e civilized man can control his own language is clear- 
ly set forth by e learned Prof. Dr. Ludwig Stein in his book 
called, Die Anfaenge der Menschlichen Kultur. 

e german scholars will, v course, understand that, we no 
more criticise e german language on account v anti-national 
prejudices, then we did when we criticised e english language, 
what we h said hs bn in e interest v our common reunited teu- 
tonish union tongue. neither e english nor german scholars 
should believe that no language improvements are beneficial t 
our common teutonic race. roman letters ought certainly t b 
adopted by all e civilized people in e future. 

one more defect in german may b mentioned, n that is e 
method v using t many inverted sentence structures by placing 
e predicate so often last, subject first, predidate second n e 
object last is e simplest, clearest n e most cosmopolitan method, 
n e one used not only in english n, danish-norwegeian n Swedish, 
but in all e romanic tongues; z, “will you give me a book?” 


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§ 18 . 

norway t introduce teutonish first. 


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there are several strong reasons for believing that nor- 
way would introduce teutonish first, z a national speech for all 
purposes, after it had bn perfected by an interteutonic language 
congress at haag, holland, z before described, n after it hd bn 
used 50 years, z a by-study in geography, t give all e people 
time t master it, but norway t adopt it on certain conditions 
only. 

if e whole teutonic race would stand by norway, n say, 
“we believe that a good, easy, regular self-clear teutonic lang- 
uage for international use is very desirable, but that such a 
language must h a living home basis. we teutons, therefore, 
will meet in a general congress n construct a language, t e best 
v our understanding n taste, if we can find a nation, who will 
make it a living home speech. we will also help such a nation 
by studying teutonish in all our people’s schools for e single 
branch v geography, but we are t great lovers v our existing 
mother-tongues t abandon them for any other purpose than 
for general geography only. ’ ’ 

if e teutonic race would grant t norway so high n noble a 
culture work, we feel confident that norway would gladly ac- 
cept it. we believe it for several reasons. in e first place 
norway hs a highly developed school system with compulsory 
school attendence from 8 t 14 years, with convenient school 
houses n normal graduate# z teachers. she is also troubled by 
a lauguage spoken by t small a population, t support an extens- 
ive scientific literature; hence, her educated men must study 
foreign languages for information n inspiration. this makes 
them linguists in a high proportion t e population. 

there is yet a stronger reason, why norway would b more 
willing t introduce e teutonish union tongue, than any other 
nation, if e english, or germans, or both would agree t study 
teutonish for geography in their people’s schools at least, n 
that reason is that norway is not satisfied with e danish lang- 
uage forced upon her people during e 400 years that norway was 
under denmark from i 13th t e 19th century. e danish book- 
language hs not yet bn able t eradicate e old norse dialects spok- 
en in e greater part v e country. 

so gre’at n widespread is e love for landsmaalet (country 
language) , that when mr. ivar aasen, an able linguist, wrote a 


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grammar n dictionary v this home language called “landsmaa- 
let”, e legislature v norway published said work at public ex- 
pense. e members v this legislature were elected by e people, 
knudsen hs also written a dictionary v “landsmaalet”, n elim- 
inated e greek n latin words. mr. vinje hs written most v his 
poetry n stories in it. rev. blix hs translated a great number 
v church hymns into * ‘landsmaalet, ” which is sung in many 
churches n in private families. 

there is, however, one obstacle t e expulsion v e danish 
tongue from norway, n that is e feeling that norway would be- 
come t isolated intellectually, if separated in speech from den- 
mark; hence e governing n literary class h favored e retention 
v dano-norwegian, or a unification v all e 3 Scandinavian count- 
ries into one union compromise tongue; that is norwegian, Swed- 
ish n danish. prof, ludvig daa v e university v kristiania, nor- 
way, hs advocated this idea. 

it hs often bn said by norway’ s literary men, that it is an 
intellectual evil t h a language used by a small population, be- 
cause they can not support a diversified literature for general 
information n inspiration; hence, e norwegians cling t e some- 
what foreign danish literary tongue, already uniformly under- 
stood by all, while e “ landsmaalet ” is not e same in all e parts 
v e kingdom. 

it can therefore b seen that norway is e ideal nation t in- 
troduce teutonish first. e soil is prepared by former language 
discussions, besides e norwegians are natural born linguists, 
they are already a bilingual-people besides e many foreign 
tongues they study, n they are more seafaring t foreign count- 
ries, than any other people v e globe, according t population. 
2 million people h nearly 8000 ships, this is 3 times more ships 
than even england hs in proportion t population, e norwegians 
are therefore a very cosmopolitan-minded people, with a highly 
developed national sehool system, enforced by compulsory 
school attendence, z in germany. 

teutonish standing half-way between english n high ger- 
man, they will catch so many known words from both sides, 
that it will b very easy for e norwegians t introduce teutonish 
first, if they knew that e english, german n dutch speaking 
peoples would stand by them, if no farther, than t study teu- 
tonish only for geography in all their schools, so that they would 
not b alone in understanding it. 

it hs even now bn proposed t make norwegian internation- 
al by french scholars, on e ground that a living language were 


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necessary, n because it would awaken t much jealousy t choose 
english, german or french, on account v e advantages it would 
give t e large competing commercial people, whose language 
were thus chosen. 

now, if norway spoke n wrote e highly organized teuton- 
ish, a language so easy, regular n self -explaining n supported 
by e whole teutonic race for e study v geography in all e peop- 
les schools, it would certainly become a living international 
language, because no better international speech can be con- 
structed out v any other material, than out v e old short n con- 
venient teutonic base words. in all cases there must b words 
n rules t b memorized. norway would also b safer against 
russia, if she adopted a general teutonic union tongue. 

if norway made teutonish e national tongue for all pur- 
poses, after 50 years v by-study in geography, or until all hd 
learned it, then it is very likely that such small nations z den- 
mark, Sweden n holland would also adopt it, z teutonish is so 
much like their own ancient mother-tongues, n because they 
would then h a larger literature for mutual information, n h an 
ideal, easy, regular n self-clear up. to-date language for their 
own dear school children, women n poor working men at home, 
they would h a better language than before, n one which would 
b understood all over e world. small nations can turn around 
more easily than large nations. 

§ 19. 

high politics n missionary work. 

if e anglo-saxon teutons would gradually introuuce teu- 
tonish n finally make it e standard language for all purposes 
after 50 years v supplementary study for geography n history 
in e higher n lower common schools, they could alone make it e 
international language, if e other nations were t conservative t 
give up their present difficult n irregular tongues. 

let us think v it. suppose e numerous n wide-sbread 
anglo-saxons hd an easy, simple, regular n self-explaining 
language, n suppose that all other nations hd difficult, irregular 
tongues, is it not reasonable t foretell that other nations would 
unanimously concentrate upon studying this sytematic saxon 
teutonish in preference t any other tongue for travel n com- 
merce? 

let us again suppose that e anglo-saxons hd bn broad- 
minded enough, n kind enough t take in so many german, dutch 


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n Scandinavian words, z t make their language extremely easy t 
learn t e continental teutons, then they would draw them t 
their bosom n make them support this anglo-saxon teutonish z 
e future international tongue with their several influential for- 
eign deplomacies, while if e anglo-saxons merely systematized 
english n ignored other teutons, it might drive them into form- 
ing some other language union t compete with e reformed eng- 
lish tongue. 

it would undoubtedly b easier t e anglo-Saxons t simply 
reform their spelling, make their grammar regular n only adopt 
more self-compounding v saxon english words. this alone 
would make e language very strange at home anyway, so that 
it would pay better t go a little farther, while at it, n adopt e 
more advanced teutonish n b sure the support v e whole race. 


(b) 

if e continental teutons, that is, germany, austria, Switz- 
erland, belgium, holland, denmark, Sweden n norway, would 
agree t gradually introduce teutonish thru 50 years v supple- 
mentary study v it for geography n history in e higher n com- 
mon schools, after a general inter-teutonic language congress 
hd improved n sanctioned it, then they alone could make it in- 
ternational in foreign travel, commerce n deplomacy. 

look at e map v europe n then imagine what would b e 
result v such linguistic unification. e same easy, simple, reg- 
ular n self-clear tongue would b spoken, sung n written from e 
north cape v norway, south thru norway, Sweden, denmark, 
germany, holland, belgium, Switzerland n austria t e mediteran- 
ean sea, n from e danube river t e atlantic ocean by over 110 
millions v e most intelligent, honest, progressive, patriotic n 
peacable peoples on earth, n also right thru e centre v europe, 
where e language location would h e most effect. 

if e continental teutons hd an easy, “up-to-date” n uni- 
form language, while all other nations hd only their middle-age, 
complex, irregular, difficult, mixed jargons, it is easy t foretell 
that all foreign high schools n universities would concentrate 
their extra study upon this continental teutonish, for there 
would b no living language candidate for international study 
which would b so easy t master, nor h a more life-guiding 
literature, besides being e nost intelligence-producing lang- 
uage for home usage. 


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41 


look at e map again, n see how this continental teutonish 
union tongue lies thru e centre v europe, dividing e romanic 
from e Slavonic tongues, thus exerting a powerful influence both 
toward e east n e west. e surrounding nations will h t cross 
this language torritory by rail roads or by ships t communicate, 
or trade with one another. france would rather learn this 
easy, regular n systematic language v her nearest neighbors, 
germany, holland n Switzerland than a more difficult language 
across e sea. russia, which joins teutonish-speaking peoples 
along norway, Sweden, germany n austria, wonld certainly 
rather learn e nearby easy, simple, regular n uniform teutonish, 
than e difficult, time-wasting n thought-hiding english jargon 
far away. in this way it would become e principal language v 
europe, n europe would again naturally make it international, 
being e headquarters v so many empires n so much diversified 
diplomacies n commerce n so near asia n africa. t other nat- 
ions it will make no difference, whether e international speech 
is spoken n written by 110 or by 150 millions, so it is a home 
language n hs all-embracing life-guiding n inspiring literature, 
n easy t learn, e easy learning counts more than number v 
speakers. 

we undertake t predict, that such a teutonic union tongue, 
under some form, will become popular sooner or later among e 
common people, for they will soon come t instinctively under- 
stand that such a language would b in their self-interest, n 
that there would b no monopoly, disadvantage, or dishonesty in 
it. it would bring germany, Scandinavia, holland, n belgium 
closer together. germany would gladly give millions for a 
closer understanding. e 3 Scandinavian countries would h e 
same language, n h germany, holland, belgium, Switzerland n 
austria thrown into e bargain for good measure. “how is that 
for advance/’ fuer veltpolitikl und fuer missions arbeit, und 
fuer kultur? e continental teutons h not so many colonies t 
spread their language in z england. 

we feel like giving e same warning t e continental teu- 
tons, z we gave t e english teutons; namely, not t b narow- 
minded about e choice v union words n sentence-structures, e 
english arrangement v words in e sentence, is not only english, 
but Scandinavian n romanic also; hence, e english syntax is not 
only teutonic, but cosmopolitan z well. by placing e future 
union tongue upon a narrow high-german basis only, wonld is- 
olate e language n hinder a peacable conqust. 

by adopting e simple english grammar, syntax n many 


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common anglo-saxon teutonic words, it would make e union 
tongue so easy t learn t e numerous, powerful n commercial 
anglo-saxons, that they would study it in their higher schools in 
preference t any other foreign tongue, n thereby indirectly in- 
duce other nations t study it in their higher schools, altho, they 
might b t conservative t introduce it z e proper n only national 
tongue. e united states which hs a great teutonic population, 
would b strongly tempted t introduce such teutonish, if adopted, 
z e national union tongue by all e continental teutons. 

teutonish, z it is, hs bn so impartially constructed, that it 
can b adopted by either e english or by e continental teutons, 
whoever is e most progressive, patriotic n co-operative. t 
take largely from saxon english words, z we h done, is not only 
Christian n brotherly, but wise n high diplomacy, n a clever 
military strategy. it is like borrowing or taking fire n am- 
munition from e enemy t conquer him with. we must also re- 
member that e best people v e world are those who serve e 
world best. it is often e wisest child that yields. e motive 
v helpfulness is more noble, than e motive v mastery. leader- 
ship thru compromise n helpfulness is e real natural leadership, 
after e teutonish language congress hd once agreed upon e 
words t b used, it would make no practical or philosophic dif- 
ference, whether a word is english, german, dutch or Scandinav- 
ian, so long z it is within e teutonic family, (excepting e rare n 
high scientific terminology) . we need a higher n broader 
“teutonic soul,” n unite in self-defence against a future 
united east. 


(c) 

e readers will notice that there is an inclination in teu- 
tonish towards dutch n low-german. after thinking e matter 
over n over again hundreds v times, we h v late inclined to- 
wards e low-german more than formeriy for 2 reasons. in e 
first place, e low-german words are e most diffusive linguistic 
element in e world, excepting e mongolic. e low-german hs 
leavened both e english, high-german n Scandinavian. it is 
more diffusive than latin, excepting in e learned scientific term- 
inology. e common low-german words: “good, book, land, 
father, mother,” nsf, is spoken by over 100 millions more people 
than e correspoding romanic terms, “bon, libra, terra, pater, 
mater, nsf. 

low-german stands z a grand-mother towards all e teu- 


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tonic languages; hence, we are fortunate in having a central 
cementing language element, around which we can all rally, 
without wounding e national pride v any teutonic nation, in- 
asmuch z low-german n dutch stands z a common grandmother, 
n being much like both english n e 3 Scandinavian tongues, it is 
more central n unifying than either english or high-german, 
both e english n german people would h less national pride 
against low-german, dutch n Scandinavian than against english 
or high-german, being competitors in literature n commerce. 

while it is true, that low-german is a central, unifying n 
cementing element, it would not b right t take all e words from 
low-german n dutch. that would only b simplifying dutch n 
make e other teutons bear e whole burden v memorizing all e 
new words. there must b some limit n some general rule for 
selecting low-german n dutch. e most general n strongest 
teutonic element is v course e anglo-saxon english, e second 
strongest e high-german, e third strongest e low-german n 
dutch, while e Scandinavian would b e fourth n weakest. 

in selecting words for e teutonish union tongue, e aim hs 
bn t produce e greatest average intelligibility among e teutonic 
peoples v europe, where a union tongue is most needed; hence, 
e low-german n dutch words are not t b chosen, unless they h a 
similliarity t english, german n Scandinavian, but dutch words 
should not b chosen on their own strength alone. e low-ger- 
man is treated z a central n unifying teutonish element, z 
“idiom neutral” n e very good “panroman” hs treated e latin; 
namely, z a central unifying romanic element. 

we h not space enough t explain all e reasons for choosing 
this or that word, but we can give a reason for every choice, 
often a word hs bn selected on account v its brevity n ease v 
pronounciation; z, ,,velt” (world), sometime because it is like 
low-german, dutch n Scandinavian; z “good” (goed, god); at 
other times a word hs bn changed in spelling n sound t avoid 
collission with a similar word in another language which would, 
otherwise, h given those people a wrong impression. at other 
times a word hs bn changed t agree with some base word, or in 
order t establish a new basis. it would b necessary t know all 
teutonic tongues t apreciate fully e difficulty v choosing well, but 
a future teutonic congress can easily correct our mistakes, 
when necessary. 

we believe that our general plan is e most practical n 
correct that can b found for a teutonic union tongue; that is, v 
choosing e best words from all e teutonic languages impartially, 


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rather than basing e union tongue wholly on english, german, 
Scandinavian, or dutch. in e latter case e teutonish union 
tongue would h bn regarded z only a corrupted or spoiled eng- 
lish, german, Scandinavian, or dutch, which would not h become 
popular at home or abroad; but, making teutonish a new n im- 
partial teutonic union language, it may b learned, while retain- 
ing e old mother-tongues, upon which it leans. 

e english having bn given e immense advantage v gram- 
mar n syntax, z well z e idiomatic use v e prepositions, are 
therefore, expected t feel willing t take more than their share 
with their teutonic brothers n sisters in learning many new 
words. all parties must learn many new words. this cannot 
b helped, unless english could conquor e other tongues without 
learning anything new. e order v thinking is english. 

if e teutons could agree thru an inter-teutonic language 
congress upon an improved teutonish, n e whole race use it for 
geography n history in all their respective schools, it could b 
made international by first making it a common school language 
for those 2 branches only; that is, make it “half-national.” 

if any man or society can find a better n purer teutonic 
union tongue, underetood by more teutons, than we h present- 
ed, we wish him, or them, god’s blessing. 

we h many more ideas t express on this subject, but we 
prefer t express them in “niu teutonish” itself, after we h ex- 
plained e spelling, grammar n e most necessary common base 
words. 

if e teutons will not agree among themselves t preserve e 
glorious common mother words v childhood, they will sooner or 
later b conquored by e very good panroman, or a romanic 
union tongue, constructed by doctor h. molenaar, munchen, 
holzkirchenstrasse 5 , deutschland. doctor h. molenaar will send 
a specimen v his “panroman, t for 5 cents (20 pfennigeh write 
t e above adress. if an easy latin language were taught n 
spoken every day in e schools, it would soon b spoken in fam- 
ilies, then in society, then in commerce n at last become e gen- 
eral daily language, on account v its regularity, euphony n 
convenience. in e future e teutons will eitber h t improve n 
unify their irregular tongues, or go down in language defeat 
for want v co-operations n unity. e Japanese n Chinese are 
talking about improving n uniting their lauguages. it would 
b a shame t us, if e teutons should h t learn an asiatic union 
language, instead v asia studying teutonish. savage tribes 


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45 


are often so jealous n envious v each other, that they will rath- 
er b conquored by a foreign enemy than combine among them- 
selves. particularism is e course among savage people, what 
difference does it make, whether we say, haus or huus; moder 
or mutter ? 


PHONETIC ALPHABET. 

Pronounce the following letters like the 
italic in the words beside them. All other 
letters retain their usual sounds— C, Q and X 
not being used. 


SHAPE AND POSITION OF CONSONANTS. 


\ p» 

t. 

/ <3 ch > 

— K 

\b, 

d, 


— g» 

^ f. (nth, 

) s > 



' d th a, 

) z > 

J 3 A 

r \ "v. 

^m, 

^n, 

r r, ■>», 

/ h. 

^qng. 


VOWELS. 


1st, • i it, 

o odd, • e eel, 

~ e or, 

2d, . e ell, 

- u«p, • a ale, 

- © old, 

3d, • a a t, 

u pat, . ^ arm, 

© too, 


Diphthongs. 


1st, v i ice, 

A er oil; 

3d, A x owl, 

'A ' f 

^ H mwle. 



"ELu, © <3, K D, a 0, f J, 3 3, PJ p, 

use, chi p, thin, they, she, azure, sin#. 

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a fund ov $1,000 tu hav mor fonetik tjp 
mad and wid hvviq tu komens de publika- 
Jon ov a ful seriez ov fonetik ska>l buks? 
Suq an investment wud be veri profitabl. 
Kre-forOs ov ds animal net profits wiad be 
pad az a dividend and wun-forD nzd tu 
inkres de biznes. Get ip* frendz and na- 
borz tu subskrjb and send us el de sub- 
skripjonz n kan get. Eni amsnt resevd. 
Address A. LONGLEY, 2711 Franklin Avo., St. Louis, Me 




niu teutonish. 

bookstafing (spelling.) 


letter , 

as, in ♦ 

letter, 

as, in . 

letter, 

as, in. 

a, 

a, far 

i> 

ee, feel 

uu, 

oo, huus 

ae (a), 

ea, bear 

i, 

i, sit 

V, 

v, value 

ai, 

ai, paid 

ie, 

ie, brief 

w, 

v, vil 

au, 

ou, house j, 

y» you 

wh, 

v, vat 

ay, 

ay, day 

o, 

o, old 

X, 

ks books 

ch, 

ch, rich 

oe (0), 

e, her 

y W, 

y. syd 

e, 

e, they 

oi‘ 

oi, boil 

(gr, ger, n skan.) 

e, 

e, set 

oo, 

oo, floor 

z, 

ts, zero 

ee, ee. 

. (ger), see 

oy, 

oy, boy 

sh (ger sch), shal 

ei, 

ei, height 

r (rolling) r, roar 

q, 

aw , law 

eu, 

oi oil 

u, 

u, rude 

aa, 

ah, jahr 

f, 

f, find 

u, 

u, ful 

ae=ger a, oe s ger 6 

g, 

g, give 

uu, 

u, rule 

y r ger u 

; ue=ger y 


no capital letters in teutonish. 


doubling a vowel simply makes e sound longer 
drawn out, but doubling a consonant means a shor- 
tening v e preceding vowel; z “spot” n “spotter”, 
in order, however, t save e doubling v consonants n 
t retain e original short sounds v e vowels between e 
consonants, we h adopted e rule, that original vowels 
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base words, z it hd before; thus, “spot” n spoter, 
spotr, spoting, (not “spohtr” or spootr or spohting). 
if it is understood that e base word retains its former 
sound in e derivative words z in e base word, it will 
save e doubling v e consonants n allow e original 
word n e suffix t preserve e original sound n form; z 
“nm, er” is “runer” (not runner), “runing” (not 
running), a waving line drawn rnder a word indic- 
ates spacing between letters. 

we admit that this scheme v spiling is not z econ- 
omical n systematic, z we should like, but it is e best 
we can do with e old letters only, n at e same time 
represent z many v e english n german sounds z 
possible with e greatest intelligibility t e people con- 
cerned. it is true that we h more than one way v 
representing some v e sounds, in order t retain in- 
tact many english n continental forms n sounds, yet 
e spelling is phonetic, according t e plan given; that 
is, all words must b pronounced as spelt. “book” 
is not pronounced “buk” z before, but “bohk« or 
“boke”. e pronounciation is according t e continent- 
al, greek n latin sounds v e letters. 

accent or stress v e voice is placed upon e princ- 
ipal or qualifying part z in german, Scandinavian n 
dutch, because that is e simplest n most natural rule. 

e difficult english sounds “£/&, w , wn , /’ h bn 
changed t d , t, v , y” sounds, n e difficult german gut- 
teral “c/t” hs bn changed t “fc”; z in english, Scan- 
dinavian n dutch; thus, ger. buck, low ger. bank , 
english book; scan, bok , dutch boek. e long n difficult 
ger. schiv hs bn changed t “sv”; schl t “si”. e ,,r” 
should b pronounced with a hard rolling sound; z in 
scottland, ireland, e continent v europe, south amer- 
ica n asia. e hard rolling “r” is e world’s “r”. it 
is a manly “r”, n we need some hard letters for vari- 
ety. “z” is not much favored, except in e beginning 


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49 


v words, n then it is a hard sound like ts in “zero” 
(tsero). e unaccented “e” is left out before a final 
,,1 -n-- r”; z, “handl, morgn, modr”. e sound v e 
word will b e same without “e” z with it, but if “1 — 
n — r” are not final, “e” is inserted z usual, e south 
germans must b careful t distinguish n “p”, il t ”, 
“gr” n “fc”. dont say “&os£” for “pos£”, n “ broet ” 
for “frroed”, nsf. teutonish hs more sounds than 
“pan-roman”. hence, it needs more letters n com- 
bination v letters, pitman’s spelling with 37 letters, 
is in our opinion, e simplest n easiest t learn; but e 
new letters are t little known t b used by us. 

e learning v teutonish will b a long step in learn- 
ing e english n german tongues, so that time will in 
no case b lost. 


teutonish sprakleer. 

{teutonish grammar.) 

4 articles, do (m), da (f), du (n), di (pi), een (a- 
an, ein, one). e plural number adds s or es : “een 
man, tvo mans; een huus (house), tvo huuses”, ex- 
cept fru (lady, madam) n heer (gentleman, sir, mr,) 
take “n” t form e plural; z, “fruen n heeren” (ladies 
n gentlemen). ’on t form e direct possessive; z, 
man’on (man’s) mans’on (men’s, v men). there is 
no objective form. e adjective is unchangable; z, 
“good man, good veib, (woman), good kind (child), 
good huuses”. e adverb is like e adjective, or “i”, 
or "li” is added, when necessary; z, “shi sing good, 
hi sprek (speaks) fortrefli (excelent)”. 

e comparison v adjectives n adverbs is formed 
by prefixing meer (more), meest (most), mindr (less), 
or minst (least); z, “meer godli,” or “mindr godli.” 
there are, however, 12 exceptions t this rule for e 
sake v convenience n brevity; thus, 1 fiel (much), 
meer, meest; 2 good, betr, best; 3 hoeg(high), hoegr. 


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hoegste; 4 in, inr, inerste; 5 klein (small), kleinr 
kleinste; 6 kort (short) kortr, kortest; 7 laag (low), 
laagr, laagste; 8 lang (long), langr, langste; 9 lit 
(little), mindr, minst; 10 op, opr, opest; 11 ovr, ovri, 
overste; 12 ut, utr, uterste. 

e verbs form e past tense n e past participle by 
adding e semi-vowel n, continuous sonant n or en t 
e simplest form v e verb, imperative or infinitive; z, 
giv (imperative) to giv (infinitive), om mi giv (sub- 
junctive), mi giv (indicative), givand (present partic- 
iple), givan (infinitive noun), giving (verbal noun) mi 
givn (i gave), mi hav givn; hi is komen, shi hav 
shrivn (she has written), nsf. there are 9 except- 
ions tthis rule; thus, 1 hav, had; 2 kan, kun (could); 
3 is (be, am, art, is, are), var (was, were, been); 4 
mog (may), mogte (might); 5 mus (must), muste (had 
to); 6 sag (say), saed (said); 7 shal, shul (should); 8 
vil, vul (would); vorde (to become; ger. verden; 
scan, vorde (to become), vardt (became), ger. vard, 
vurde, geworden). 

e verb is e same for all persons n numbers; z, 
“mi giv, dau giv, hi giv, vi giv,” nsf. there is no 
special form for e infinitive, imperative, subjunctive, 
optative, dative, accussative, vocative or ablative, n 
no vowel change (umlaut), t indicate plural number, 
past time, or person, u is e principal abstract noun 
sign, after words, which end on a consonant; z, 
good, goodu (goodness); lang, langu (length^; diep, 
diepu (depth). after words which end on a vowel, 
heid [hood] is e main abstract sign; z, frie, frieheid 
[freedom]; godli, godliheid [godliness], frendliheid, 
nsf. 

o is e principal general n masculine personal 
sign; z, singo [singer], shrivo [writer]; a indicates e 
feminine actor, when necessary; z, singa (woman 
siuger), leera (teacher, fern.; ger. lehrerin), nsf. 


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e pronouns are “rai, dau , hi, shi , et , m, w, de 7m, 
sigr” (reflexive). possessives are, “mm, dm, 7m>, 
sMo, eto , vio, wo, Tmo,” sin (reflexive), e numerals are, 
“em, fcuo, tri. fir, fern, ses, syv, ot, ni, ti, tieen, titvo, 
tvoti, tvoti-een , hundr, tusn syntax: 1st subject, 2d 
predicate, 3d odject, is e regular arrangement, ex- 
cept in asking questions, when e predicate is placed 
before e subject; z, regn et? [does it rain, or is it 
raining?] 

no double affirmative or double negative is used; 
simply say, “regn et?” “kom hi?” [comes he] n “ et 
regn [it rains, not “it is raining” or “it does rain”] 

when something hs first bn said t introduce a 
sentence, then also is e predicate placed before e 
subject; thus, “hier, saed hi” [not “hi saed”]. alles 
[all things] is vel at heim, shrivn henry, [all is well 
at home, wrote henry. e grammar, syntax n e 
troublesome prepositions are used according t eng- 
lish models, and idioms, t compensate e english 
speaking people for e great number v words taken 
from e continental teutons, while e german n dutch 
will h t rearrange every sentence in order t think in 
teutonish, e english will simply h t learn some new 
words. e mode v thinking is english. thjs is so 
immense an advantage t e anglosaxons that, a greater 
number v words hs bn taken from e continent t 
equalize e difficulty v learning teutonish; besides e 
words are more alike with less v latin terms on e 
continent. 

e following 800 words should b read aloud at 
least 10 times n copied with pen n ink. if e 800 
basic words are thoroly committed t memory, it will 
b pleasant n easy sailing after that. farther ideas 
will b expressed in teutonish. 


800 grundvorts 

(800 fundamental words.) 


a, b, c, (ay, bay, say - 123 
see letter-numbers), 
af, of, off; ab 
af stand; distance; abstand 

akt, respect, attention 
akti, full of — sandakti 
aktr, behind; hinter 
also, therefore 

als,, as, like; als, wie 
altid, always, all times 
amt, office; amt 
amtstuv, office room 
an, on, upon; auf, an 
an (singan), das singen 
and, ing — (singand) 

(present participle sign) 
andr, other; andre 
anbeed, worship; anbetten 
anfang, commencement 
angr, regret, sorrow 
angerful, full of regret 
ankom, arrive 
annem, accept, adopt 
anstat, instead of 
anto, unto 
antvort, answer 
arbeid, labor; arbeit 
arm, poor 

armu, poverty; armuth 
art, sort, kind 
at, at, by, near 
avond, evening; abend 

bau, build, construct; bauen 
bauer, farmer; bauer 

bal, ball 
bang, afraid 

bedrieg, defraud; bedruegen 
bedriv, commit; betreiben 
beed, pray; beten 
beest, beast 
begrip, comprehend 
behag, please, pleasure 


behoev, need, want 
beid, both; beide 
beivort, adjective 
bekant, acquainted, known 
bekeer, repent 
bekvem, convenient 
bereed, prepare; bereiten 
berikt, report; berichten 
beshriv, describe 
besit, possess; besitzen 
besondr, special 
best, betr; besser, beste 
betal, pay; bezahlen 
betalo, payer 
betalim, payee 
betr, better, besser 
bevaar, preserve; bewahrn 
besvaaru, grievance 
bevust, conscious 
bevustli, consciously 
bevustu, consciousness 
bild, picture 

billig, cheap, reasonable 
bliv, remain; bleiben 
blot, only; bloss 
boes, bad, il; boes 
bord, board; brett, kost 
borg, borrowing; borgen 
bren, burn 
briv, letter; brief 
brodr, brother; bruder 
brodotr, brother’s; dotr 
broed, bread: brot 
broen, well; brun 
bruk, use; brauchen 
brukbar, usable 
brukli, usual 
bube, boy 
bund, alliance 
da, the (fern.); die 
do, the, (masc.); der 
du, the, (neuter); das 


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53 


di, the, (plural); die 
daad, deed; that 
dag, day; tag 
dagli, daily 

dak, roof; dach 

dal, valley; thal 
dalr, dollar; thaler 
dar, there; dar, da 

dat, that; dass 

dau, thou; du 
de, they; sie 

deel, part, deal; theil 

denk, think 

deo, their, theirs; sein 

devl, devil; teufel 

dien, serve 

dienu, service; dienst 

din, thine; dein 

dier, dear; theuer 

diese, these 

dis, this 

do, to do; thuen 

don, done; gethan 

dod, death; tod 

doer, door, a door; thuer 

doep, baptise; taufen 

dok, nevertheless; doch 

door, thru; durch 

doorgang, alley 

doorfeg, purge thru 

dotr, daughter; tochter 

dree, turn; drehen 

dril, drill; exerziren 

dur, endure; dauern 

dving, compel; zwingen 

dyr, animal; thier 

dyrish, beastly 

een’ an, one, a; ein 

eena’ first, (e wunth) 

eenad, Sunday, first day 

eenam, January, first month 

eenfak, simple; einfach 

eenfalt, simplex 

eenig, agreed, united 

eenir, unite; einigen 

eenmal, once, one time 

eensig, single 

eer, honor; ehre 

eerbar, honorable 

eerbaru, honorableness 

eerli, honest; ehrlich 

eerliheid, honesty 

eerman, gentleman 

eerverti, worthy of honor 


en, past tense; givn (gave) 
workn (worked) 
en, and; und (d. en) 
eni, any; irgend, ein 
ent, out, away 
entdek, discover 
entvikl, develop 
erd, earth 
erfar, experience 
erfind, invent 
erhold, obtain; erhalten 
erinl, memory 
ersheim, appear 
erverv, aquire; everben 
et, it; es, d. het, s. det 
evn, even; eben 
fadr, father; vater 
fan, from; von 
fang, catch; fangen 
far, ride in a vehicle 
faru, faring; fahrt 
fat, fathom; fassen 
feir, celebrate- feiern 
fern, 5 
femti, 50 

f erf at, compose; verfasn 
fergangn, gone by 
fergangli, transitory 
ferget, forget; vergessn 
fergiv, forgive 
fergleik, compare 
fergleikbar, comparable 
ferkeer, intercourse 
ferlat, abandon; verlasn 
fermeer, increase 
fermindr, decrease, lessen 
fermog, able to 
fern, far off, distant 
fernuft, reason; vernunft 
fersoek, attempt, tempt 
fershil, difference 
ferstand, understand 
fertel, relate; erzaehlen 
fervalt, administer 
fervant, related 
feur, fire 
fiel, much; viel 
fir, 4 
fira, 4th 

fliet,, dilligence; fleiss 
flieti. dilligent 
floed, flow; flissen 
flus, river 
flusi, fluid 


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teutonish. 


flyt, move, remove 
foed, food; f utter 
foel, feel; fuehlen 
folg, follow; volgen 
foer, conduct; fuehren 
folk, folk, people; volk 
for, fore, pre; vor 
forjaar, spring; fruehjahr 
forkom, occur 
formiddag, forenoon 
forrede, preface 
forsh, search 
fort, forth, onwards 
fortshrit, advance 
fortid, past time 
frag, ask, question 
frakt, freight; fracht 
fred, peace; fried 
fredli, peacable 
fredsam, quiet 
frie, free; frei 
frieheid, freedom 
fond, fund; fond 
fru, lady, madam; frau 
fr. mrs., miss, madam 
fruen, ladies (irg pi.) 
frukt, fruit; frucht 
fry, early; frueh 
fyg, join; fuegen 
fygbar, adjoinable 
fygli, adjustable 
fyr, for, pro; fuer 
fyrdat, because 
fyrkt, fear; furcht 
fyrsto, prince; fuerste 
fyrvort, pronoun 
gaa, go; gehen 
gaan, gone 
gasse, alley; gasse 
ganz, entire, wholly 
gar, indeed, in truth 
gast, guest; gast 
gebruk, custom, habit 
gebrukli, customary 
gefar, danger; gefahr 
gegn, against, counter 
gegend, region 
gegenstand, object 
gegenvirk, counteract 
geheimli, secretly 
geheimu, a secret 
gehil, mountain; gebirge 
geist, spirit 
geistli, spiritual 


geld, money 

geldhoop, heap of money 
geldvesn, finance 
gemeen, common; gemein 
gemeenli* commonly 
gern, willingly 
gering, small, trifling 
gesikt, face, gesicht 
gessel, companion 
gessela, lady companion 
gesseli, sociable 
gesselo, comrade 
gesselshap, society 
gesselshapli, social 
geshikte, history 
geshiktli, historical 
geslekt, generation 
geveetn, conscience 
gevoonli, habitually 
gevoonu, habit; gewohnheit 
giv, give; geben 
glaub, believe, faith 
gleik, alike, equal 
glyk, fortune; glueck 
glykli, happy, fortunate 
god, god; gott 
godli, godly 
godliheid, godliness 
god’on, god’s; gottes 
god’on huus, god’s house 
goen, wish one well; goennen 
good, good, gut 
goodmodi, kind, mild 
goodu, goodness 
grenz, limit; grenz 
groen, green; gruen 
gryt, greet; gruessen 
groot, great; gros 
grootmodr, grandmother 
grootson, grandson 
grootu. greatness 
gros large; gros 
grosu, largeness; groese 
grund ground, foundation 
grnndlage, foundation 
rusam. cruel: grausam 
aar, hair 

haat, hate; hassen 
had. had; hatte 
haend, hand 
handl handle 
haesli, ugly; haesslich 
halo, halo! 
haer, army; heer 


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halv, half; halb 
handl, commerce 
heel, whole entire 
heer, sir, lord; herr 
heerli, glorious 
heeren, sirs, gentlemen 
hr. , sir, mr. (in address) 
heersh, dominate 
heersho, ruler 

heil, heal; heilen 
heilist, physician, dr. 

heim, home 
heimish domestic 
hen thither, off; hin 
henfar, fare away 
henreis, journey away 
hert, heart; herz 
heufi. frequent; heufig 
heukler, hypocrite 
heet, is called; heissen 
hier, here; hier 
hikin, masculine 

hi, he; er 
himl, heaven 
hindemes, obstacle 
hio, his; ihre 
hiem, him (transposed) 
ho, how; wie 
hoeg, high; hoch 
hoegr, hoegste (irg) 
hoegu height; hoehe 
hoer, hear ; hoeren 
hoimr, however 
hop, hope, hoffen 
hovd. head; haupt 
hovdstad, capital city 
hovdstyk, chapter 
hu who; wer. welcher 

hun, cent ; 100 v dalr 
hund, dog 

hundr, 100 

huo, whose; dessen 
huus, house; haus 
huusband, husband 
hyp, hop, jump 
in, in; in, ein 

inbeed, invite; einladen 
infoer, introduce 
ingaa, ingo; eingehen 
inkom, income 
inlat, let in; einlassen 
inlond, inland 
inr, inest (irg) 
inri, interior 


inerli, earnestly 
influs, influence 
instand, able to 
intred, entrance 
inwards, inwardly 

ir, z, regl, reglir 

is, be, am, art, is, are 
is-ger. sei, seid, sein, bin, 

bist, ist, sind. 
isand, being (parti.) 
ising, being 
’is, direct passive sign 

“hi find’is” (is found) 
ismu; z, katekismu 
ist; z, sprakist 
ja, yes; ja 
jaar, year; jahr 
jaarhundr, century 
jaarti, decade 
jaartid, season 
je; z, je meer, je betr 
jede, every; jeder 
jeman, somebody; jemand 
jene, those, yonder 
jood, jew; jude 
jung, young 
jungling, young person 
jungu, youth 
kal, call; rufen 
kalv, calf; kalb 
kamr, chamber; zimmer 
kan, can; kann 
kun, could; konte 
kaum, hardly, scarcely 
kein, no, not any; kein 
keisr, emperor, 
keisera, enmpress 
keiseru, empire 
kiek, look, see; gucken 
kind, child, infant 
kindish, childish 
kerl, fellow, kerl 
kindu, childhood 
king, king; koenig 
kinga, queen; koenigin 
kingu, kingdom 
kirk, church; kirche 
kirkli, churchly 
k feeding, clothing 
kleeds, clothes; kleider 
klein, small in size 
kleinr, kleinste (irg) 
ko, cow; kuh 
koop, buy; kaufen 


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koopman, merchant 

koopleut, trade-people 

kort, short; kurz 

kortr, kortest 

krig, get, obtain; kriegen 

krieg, war 

kring, circle (d. kring) 

kringli, circular 

krum, crooked, curved 

kunst, art, science 

kunstli, artificial 

kunsterish, artistic 

kunsto, artist 

laag, low; niedrig 

laagr, laagste 

laatsi, lazy 

land, land, soil 

lang, long 

lat, let; lassen 

leg, lay, put; legen 

leik, like; gleich 

lest, last; letzt 

leist, achive; perform 

lev, live; leben 

leer, lore; lehre 

leera, teacher (f ) 

leero, teacher; lehrer 

leerim, pupil; lehr ling 

ledig emty; leer 

leit, light, easy 

les, read; lesen 

lesbar, legible 

lesa, reader; leserin 

leso, reader 

leute; folk; people 

li; z, godli; frendli 

lide, suffer; leiden 

lieb, dear, beloved 

liebli, lovely 

liebverti, loveworthy 

lig, lie, recline; liegen 

likt, light (substance) 

link, left, left side 

lit, little (in quantity 

liv, life; leben 

lob, praise; loben 

lond, country in gen. 

los, loose; los 

loop, run; laufen 

luft, air; luft 

lyd, sound; laut 

lyg, lie, falsehood; luege 

maat, measure; mass 

maal, meal, repast 


maedn, girl; maedchen 

mal, time; z, 2 mal (2 times) 

man, man; mann 

mang, among 

meer, more; mehr 

meest, most 

men, but; aber 

meni, many; viele 

mi, i, me; ich, mir 

min, my’ mine; mein 

mindr, less; fr. moinder 

minst, least; minst 

mit, with, con, co, col 

mitarbeid, colabor 

modr, mother; mutter 

modersprak, mother-language 

moet, meet; begegnen 

moeting, meeting 

mog, may; mag, moegen 

mogte, might; moechte 

monat, month 

morgn, morning 

mund, mouth 

mundli, by mouth 

mus, must 

muste, had to; muste 
nabor, neighbor; nachbar 
nak, after; nach 
nakmiddag, afternoon 
nakfrag, inquire 
nat, night; nacht 
nakn, neck; nich, genick 
nam, name 
namwort; noun 
nase, nose 

nebn, near by; neben 
nebenwort, adverb 
nedr, down; nieder 
nederfal, dowfall 
nei heer; no sir 
nei fru; no ma’m 
neidr, neither; noch 
neidr-neidr, neithr-nor 
nieman, nobody 
nimr, never; nimmer 
ni, 9 
niti, 90 

nit, not; nicht 

niu, new; neu 

nok, yet, still, noch 
nu, now; nu, nun 
nutid, present tense 
nyt, use, utility; nutz 
nytli, useful 


introdctoury. 


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obn, above; oben 
odr, or; eidr, odr 
’on, possessive sign; z, “man- 
'on haend” 
ok, also; auch 
om, about, around; um 
om, if; venn, ob 
omshon, altho; obschon 
omtrent, about; ungefaehr 
omseil, circumnavigate 
oog, eye; auge 
oor, ear; ohr 
op, up; auf, an 
opr, opest, opermeest 
ordn, order, plan; orden 
ordentli, orderly 
ordre, command; ordre 
ort, locality, place 
ortli, local; oertlich 
ot, 8 
otti, 80 

ovr, over; ueber, ober 
overlegn, superior 
overset, translate 
oversikt, general view 
pakt, compact, lease 
paard, horse; pferd 
plag, torment; plagen 
plas, place; platz 
plikt, duty; pflicht 
post, post 
postamt, postoffice 
poststuv, postoffice(r) 
prakt, pomp, show 
proev, try; pruefen 
prank, ostentation 
punkt, point 
punk turn, period (.) 
puust, breathe, breath 
raam, frame; rahme 
rakr, raskel 
raum, room, space 
regl, rale; regel 
reglir, regulate 
regn, rain 
rekt, right; recht 
rideri, cavalry; reiterei 
rikt, tend, care for 
rikti, correct; rich tig 
roop, call; rufen 
rund, round 
random, roundabout 
ryg, back, raeken 
ryg, back; zuraeck 


rygkom, come back 
rygloop, ran back 
rygmarshir, countermarch 
rygvards, backwards 
saak, affair; sache 
saed, said; sagte 
saft, sap; saft 
sag, say: sagen 
sagand, saying; sagend 
sakte, slow, sofilv 
sanft, soft, mild 
sats, sentence; satz 
salig, saved, blest; seelig 
sam, together; zusammen 
samfund, community 
samfundismu, socialism 
samfundist, socialist 
sami, same; derselbe 
saml, collect 
samt, and also; samt 
saur, sour; sauer, bitter 
se, see, look; sehen 
see, sea; see 
sedert, since; seit 
seer, very; sehr 
seel, soul, spirit; seele 
sekr, sure; sicher 
sekeru, safety; sicherheit 
sel, sell; verkaufen 
selo, seller; verkaufer 
selim, vendee 

ses, 6 
sesa, 6th 

set, set; setzen 
shaap, sheep; schaf 
shad, injury; schaden 
shal, shall; soli 
shat, treasure; schatz 
shee, happen; schehen 
shi, she; sie 

shio, her, hers; ihr 
shikin, feminine 

ship, ship; schiff 
shoen, beautiful; schoen 
shrek, terror; schreck 
shrekli, terrible 

shrit, step; schritt 
shriv, write; schreiben 
shul, should; solte 
shuld, debt; schuld 
shuldo, debtor 
sieg, victory; sieg 
sig, him or herself; sich 


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teutonish. 


sin, his or hers; sein 

reflexive; “hi find sin 
book” (he finds his b.) 
sinn, sense; sinn 
sinnbild, symbol 
sinnrich, rich in sense 
sistr, sister; sch wester 
sisterman, brother-in-law 
sister son, sister’s son 
sit, sit; sitzen 
slaap, sleep; schlafen 
slag, strike; schlagen 

smak, taste; geschmack 

smal, narrow; schmal 
smeikl, flatter; schmeicheln 
snel, soon, quick; schnell 
so, so, thus; so was 

soek, seek; suchen 
soet, sweet; sues 
soldat, soldier 
somvor, somewhere 
son, son; sohn 
sondr, asunder, apart 
sonderbrek, break asunder 
sonderslag, strike asunder 
sorg, sorrow 
sprak, language 
spaet, late; spaet 
sprek, speak; sprechen 
staal, steel; staal 
staat, state; staat 
stad, city; stadt 
stand, stand; stehen 
stat, instead of; stat 
sted, stead, place 
steel, steal; stehlen 
steen, stone; stein 
steenakti, stony 

stel, place, put; stellen 

stem, voice; stimme 
stets, constantly; stets 
stieg, mount; steigen 
stop, stop; halten 
straat, street; strasse 
strak, straight; strack 
straks, immediately 
strek, stretch; strecken 
svak, weak; schwach 
synd, sin, evil; suend 
syndig, sinful; suendig 
syv, 7 

syva, 7th 

syvad, Saturday, 7th day 
syvam, july, 7th month 


syvti, 70 

tal, number; zahl 

talreich, numerous 

talvort, number word 

tarn, tame; zahm 

tamli, prety; ziemlich 

tand, tooth; zahn 

teekn. token; zeichen 

ti, 10 

tia, 10th 

tid, time; zeit 

tiding, newspaper; zeitung 

tidvort, verb; zeitwort 

til, till; bis, zu 

tieen, 11 

titvo, 12 

titri, 13 

to, to; zu 

tog, train; zug 

toleg, add; zulegen 

tokom, future; zukunft 

toor, fool; thor 

toorish, foolish 

tovards, towards 

tree, tree; baum 

tref, hit; treffen 
trek, pull; ziehen 
tri, 3 

triti, 30 
trijen, trillion 
tru, true; wahr 
truheid, truth; wahrheit 
tur, tour 
tusn, 1,000 

tushn, between; zwischen 
tushenkom, intervene 
tushenloop, interlope 
tveifl, doubt; zweifel 
tvo, 2, two; zwei 
tvoa, 2nd 

tvoad, manday, 2nd day 
tvoam, January, 2nd month 
tvoti, 20 
tvoti-een, 21 
tvoti-tvo, 22 
tvoti-tri, 23, nsf. 
u, abstract after consonants; z, 
“good, goodu”, goodness 
u, you; ihr, euch 
undr, under; unter 
underlegen, inferior 
underrikt, instruction 
undersoek, investigate 
I undersheid, distinguish 


Introductory. 


uo, your, yours; ihre 
ut, out; aus 
utn, unless, except 
utom, without; ohne, ausser 
utnem, except, take out 
utneml, exception 
utr, utest, utermeest 
uterli, extremely 
uterliheid, extremity 
var, was, were, been 
var; war, waren, gewessen 
vardt, became, has become 
varom, why; warum 
vorde, to become; werden 
vart, wait; warten 
vat, what; was 
vedr, again; wieder 
vederkom, come again 
vederhal, repeat 
veedr, whether 
veet, know; vissen 
veetn, knew; wusste 
veetenshap, science 
veg, way, road; weg 
vegn, on account of 
veif, wife; frau 
veib, woman; weib 
veil, while; weil 
vel, well; wohl 
velt, world 

ven, when; wenn, wann 


venig, few; wenige 
vensh, wish; wunsch 
verk, work; werk 
verf, throw; werfen 
vesn, essence, affair 
vi, we; wir 
vio, our, ours; unser 
viet, white; weis 
vikti, important 
viktiheid, importance 
vil, will; will, werden 
vul, would; wolte 
vidr, against, contra 
viderstand, withstand 
viderslag, counter blow 
vilk, which; welcher 
vindu, window; fenster 
virk, operate; wirken 
voon, dwell; wohnen 
vor, where; wo 
vorin, wherein; worein 
vort, word; wort 
vvste, desert; wueste 
yb, to exercise; ueben 
ybing, practice; uebung 
ybtid, time for practice 
ybplas, practice-place 
zero, zero 

zie, draw, pull; ziehen 
zvek, purpose; zweck 


evangel i af heiligo matheus- 

{gospel of saint matthew). 


hovdstyk z. 

(chapter ii) 

nu ven jesus var birtn in 
bethlehem af judea in di dags 
af king herodes, se, dar komen 
vis mans fan du ost to Jerusa- 
lem, 

2 sagand, vor is hi dat is 
birtn King af di joods? fyr 
vi hav seen hio stern in du 
ost, en is komen to anbeed hi. 

3 ven herodes do king had 
hoern diese tings, vardt hi 
trubeln, en al Jerusalem mi t hi. 

4 en ven hi had sameln al 
di hovdpriestes en shriftgeler- 
nen af du folk, fragn hi af de 
vor kristus shul vorde birtn. 

5 en de saed to hi, in beth- 
lehem in judea: fyr so is et 
shrivn bei do profet, 

6 en dau bethlehem, in du 
land af judea, is nit du minst 
mang di fyrstos af juda; fyr 
ut af dau shal ^om een staat- 
holdo, hu shal regir min folk 
israel. 

7 den herodes, ven hi had 
heimli kaln di visos, nakfragn 
hi flieti af de vat tid du stern 
ersheinen. 

8 en hi sendn de to bethle- 
hem, en saed, gaa, en forsh 
flieti nak du jung kind, en ven 
u hav findn et, bring mi vort 


vedr, dat mi mog kom en an- 
beed et ok. 

9 ven de had hoern do king 
hentreken de, en se, du stern, 
vilk de seen in du ost, gaan 
foran de, til et komen en 
standn ovr vor du jung kind 
var. 

10 en ven de seen du stern, 
freudn de sig mit overmaati 
groot freud. 

11 en ven de var komen in- 
to du huus, seen de du jung 
kind mit maria eto modr, en 
fain nedr, en anbeedn et, en 
ven de had opnen deo shat, 
shenkn de to et gaves, gold, 
veiroek en myra. 

12 en isand (being) varnen af 
god in droem dat, de shul nit 
rygvend to herodes, henreisn 
de to sin eign lond ein andr 
veg. 

13 en ven de var hentrekn, 
se, du engl af do heer ershei- 
nen to josef in een droem, 
sagand, stand op, en nem du 
kind en eto modr, en flie into 
egypt, en is (be) dau dar, til mi 
bring dau vort, fyr herodes vil 
soek du jung kind to ombring 
et. 

14 ven hi standn op, nemen 
hi du jung kind en eto modr 
bei nat en hentrekn into 
egypt: 


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l5f en var dar^til diTdod af 
herodes; dat et mogte vorde 
fulfyln, vat var sprekn bei do 
heer door do profet, sagand, 
ut af egypt hav mi kaln min 
son. 

16 den herodes, ven hi seen 
dat hi var bedriegn af de visos, 
vardt hi overmaati torni, en 
sendn fort en latn dodslag al 
de kinds dat var in bethlehem, 
en in al de grenzes daraf , fan 
tvo jaars en undr, nak du tid 
vilk hi had flieti nakfragn af 
de visos 

17 den var fulfyln vat var 
sprekn bei jeremias, do pro- 
fet, sagand, 

18 in rama var dar en stem 
hoem, geklag, geween en jam- 
ershrei, rakl beveen sin kinds, 
en vul nit lat sig troest, fyrdat 
de is nit. 

19 men ven herodes var 


dod, se, een engl af do heer 
ersheinen in een droem to jo- 
sef in egypt, 

20 sagand, stand op, en 
nem du jung kind en eto modr, 
en gaa into du land af israel; 
fyr de is dod, hu soekn du 
jung kind'on liv. 

21 en hi standn op, en nem- 
en du jung kind en eto modr, 
en komen iuto du land af 
israel. 

22 men ven hi hoern dat 
archelaus regirn in judea in- 
sted af sin fadr herodes, 
fyrktn hi to gaa darhen, un- 
aktn, ising (being) varnen af 
god in droem, vendn hi sig to- 
sids into de deels af galilea, 

23 en hi komen en voonen 
in een stad kaln nazaret; dat 
it mogte vorde fulfyln vat var 
sprekn door di profets, hi shal 
heet een nazareto. 


du heer’ on heed. 

(the lord's prayer) . 

vio fadr hu is in himl; heilig vorde din nam; din 
reik kom; din vil vorde dun an erd, als et is in himl; 
giv vi dis dag vio dagli broed; en fergiv vi vio shuld, 
als vi fergiv vio shuldos; en leed vi nit into fersoek- 
ing, men erloes vi fan evl; fyr din is du reik, en du 
kraft en du herliheid in evigu — amen, [matheus 6. 
9-13]. 

di ti gebids. 

(the ten commandments). 

1. dau shal hav kein andr gods befor mi. 

2. dau shal nit nem du nam af do heer fergevs, 
fyr do heer vil nit unshuldihold hi, hu nem hio nam 
fergevs. 


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3. erinr du sabatdag to heilighold et. 

4. eer din fadr en modr dat et mog gaa vel mit 
dau, en dau mog lev langi an du erd. 

5. dau shal nit dodir. 

6. dau shal nit begaa ektibrek. 

7. dau shal nit steel. 

8. dau shal nit baer falsh betyg gegn din nabor. 

9. dau shal nit begeer din nabor’on huus. 

10. dau shal nit begeer din nabor’on veif, neidr 
hio dieno, neidr hio diena, neidr hio fie, neidr eni- 
ting, vilk is hio. 


noodvendi forloopi ybings. 

( necessary 'preliminary exercises). 

di english fyrvorts (pronouns) en di skandinav- 
ish talvorts (numerals), is di kortest, di meest be- 
kvem en di best undersheidn (differentiated) in du 
velt. 

eng. i, thou, he, she, it, we, you, they, who 

deuch , ich, du, er, sie, es, wir, ihr, sie, wer 

skan. jeg, du, han, hun, det’ vi, eder, de, hvo 

tent ♦ mi , dau , hi , shi , et , vi , u , de, hu 

besiti form (possessive form), 
eng.: mine, thine, his. hers, its, ours, yours, theirs 
deuch: mein, dein, sein, ihre, sein, unser, ihre, seine 
skan. : min’ din, hans, hendes, dets, vor, eders, deres 
teut.: min , dm, hio , shio , eto , mo, no , deo 

sin is een besiti rygvendi (reflexive) fyrvort, 
vilk is brukn ven et vis ryg to du subjekt; als; “hen- 
ry givn vilhelm sin book”, dat meen dat henry givn 
vilhelm sin eign book, (henry ’on book); men (but, 
aber), om (if, wem) vi sag, “henry givn vilhelm hio 
book, vilk tohoern (belonged) to vilhelm. “sin”, 


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ven rygvendi bedyd (signifies) du sami als “hio eign, 
(his own), shio eign (her own), ito eign (its own), deo 
eign (their own).” “do fadr findn sin kind”, meen 
dat do fadr findn sin eign kind, men om vi sag, “do 
fadr findn hio kind”, meen et, dat do fadr findn een 
andr man’on kind; dat is, “sin” is altid rygvendi, 
als in di skandinavish spraks, fyr to forbuig (pre- 
vent) misferstandels 

sig is een rygvendi (reflexive) fyrvort, du sami, 
als du deuch “sich”, hollandi “zich”, du platdeuch 
“sik” or “sig”, du skandinavish “sig” or “seg”, en 
du romanish “se”, vi hav annemen du platdeuch 
en skandinavish form “sig”, fyrdat et is du meest 
leit sprekn en shrivn. en algemeen ferstandn; als, 
“shi seen sig in du speigl”, (she saw herself in e 
mirror)- “sig” meen du sami als du english “him- 
self, herself, itself, themeselves”. 

utn (except, ausgenommen) “min, din, sin”, en- 
dir (terminate) al di besiti (possessive) forvorts an 
“o”, als, “hio, shio, eto, vio, uo, deo, huo”. dis “o” 
is een ferkortl (abbreviation) fan “on” (own), fyr to 
krig (get, obtain) meer opn en vellydand (welsound- 
ing) selvlyds (vowels), af vilk vi hav to venig (few) 
in vio liebi [dear] teutonish spraks. 

lat vi nu vedr [again] betrakt di bekvem skandi- 
navish talvorts. 

een, tvo, tri, fir, fern, ses, syv, ot, ni, ti, tieen, 
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 

titvo, titri, tifir,nsf; tvoti, tvoti-een,tvoti-tvo,tvoti-tri, 
12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 

nsf. triti, triti-een, nsf. firti, femti, sesti, syvti, otti, 
30, 31, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 

niti, hundr, tusn, eenjen [million], tri tvojen [3 bil- 
90, 100, 1,000, 1,000,000, 3,000,0000,000, 

lions]. “eenjen” bedyd een sprong odr een stand- 
ort, odr merkl ovr odr, jensids (bejond, jenseit) du 


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tusn tals; tvojen (billion), trijen [trillion], firjen 
[quatrillion], nsf. 

bei making “een”, samt [plus] “jen” “ eenjen ” to 
stand fyr “million”, en ‘'tvojen” stand fyr ‘‘billion”, 
den krig vi ganz rein teutonish talvorts. 1,234,567,- 
890” is lesn so: “een tvojen, tvo hundr triti-fir een- 
jens, fern hundr sesti-syv tusn, ot hundr en niti.” 
dis is nak du fransi, english en amerikanish system. 

a is tolegn [added] to du grundtal fyr to form du 
ordental [ordinal number]. sodan, eena [first, er- 
ste] fan “een” [1]; “tvoa” fan “tvo”, samt “a”; als, 
“tvoa” [second, 2nd, zweite], “tria” ^3rd, 3te), nsf. 
(en so fort), een halv deel (i); tvo trias (I), syv tis 
(7 tens), nsf.; 3 ferns (3 fives); fern tis (5 tens), nsf. 
in timali (decimal) rekning, kan vi shriv, “.5” fyr 
“fem-tias” (five- tenths). “ trieeniheid (trinity, drei- 
einigkeit). 

vi glaub dat nu, is di english fyrvorts en di 
skandinavish talvorts tamli klar, man mus naturli, 
les de vedr (again) meni mals 1yd in du begin, befor 
de is fest organirn into du bevustu (consciousness, 
bewustsein). man kan dok nit ervart to erverv een 
niu sprak, utom du minst studiring, evn om (if, 
wenn) et is nur een heimish fereensprak. di jung 
leut vil hav genog tid to lern et in di nekst femti 
jaars, om di old leut vil lat de do et. 

besondr vorts. 

dar is omtrent tifir (14) vorts dat forkom seer 
oft, vilk et vul is good to shenk besondr opmerksa- 
mu, befor vi vandr meer fern in vio niu sprakreise. 
vi meen sodan vorts als; als , dan , fyr , hu , men , om, 
sodan. til, u , utn, utom, vil, vor, vorde , vardt . ” 

“aZs” is brukn, als (wie) du english “as”, en be- 
dyd beid “a/s” en “me” indeuch; dus, “shiisso good 
als hi. shi sing als (wie) hi (she sings as he does). 


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“dan” is brukn als in english en hollandi, dat is, 
in f ergleiking (comparison), so, “di japanos is meer 
klog (clever), dan di kinaos, men (but) di teutonos is 
meer klog, dan di japanos. 

“fyr” is een seer heufi nebenvort (adverb) en 
bindvort (conjunction), en is brukn als du english 
“for”; dus, “mi vil arbeid fyr u”. “fyr” mog ok 
hav sami bedyd als du deuch vort “denn”; du skan. 
“thi” en hollandish “want”; dus; “lat vi gaa ut, fyr 
et is sunshein nu”. 

“hu” is du english relativ fyrvort “who”, “hu” 
point ryg to persons, veil “vilk” en “vat” point ryg 
(zurueck) to dyrs odr tings; als, “hu (wer, hvo) kom 
hier?” “mi se do man, hu, (wer der, welcher; hvil- 
ken, som) var hier gestern”. “mi sprekn to da fru 
(lady, madam), hu singn lest nat. 

“vilk” (which; welcher, welche, welches; hvilke, 
som) point (zeigen, zeilen; peger) ryg (tilbage) to 
dyrs odr tings; als, “se u dat paard, vilk loop dar?” 
(do you see e horse which runs there?) vilk paard 
meen u? (which horse do you mean?). 

“men” (but, aber) is nemen fan di tri skandina- 
vish spraks, fyrdat et is so fiel (much) leik du hol- 
landish maar , samt du fransi mats (ma), besids is men 
seer vellydand mit sin floedand “m” en “n” 1yd. 
also, sag vi, “u, men nit hi”[you, but not he”; deuch, 
“sie, aber nicht er”; hollandish, “u, maar niet hij”]. 

“om” [if; wenn, obj is een kompromis tushn [be- 
tween, zwischen] skandinavish om , deuch, ob en hol- 
landi, omdat ; als, “mi vil gaa, om u is ferdi” [i will 
go, if you are ready; deuch, ich verde gehen, wenn 
sie fertig sind]. frag, om hi is ferdi. Task, if he is 
ready; deuch, frage, ob er fertig istj. 

“ sodan ” is een utgleik (compromise,) tushn du hol- 
landish vorts sodan , sodanig en du skandinavish, saa- 
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thus”, en du deuch, “solch, sowie”; als, “hav u seen 
sodan eeniheid?” (have you seen such unity? deuch, 
haben sie solche einigkeit gesehen?) 

“til” (till, bis, an, tot) is beid english en skan- 
dinavish; als, “vart, til hi kom” (wait till hi comes; 
deuch, warte, bis er kommt). 

‘ V’(you, ihr, sie). dis fyrvort, tvoa (second) 
person, meertal (plural) is brukn in spreking to al 
menshes, altr en stand, grad (just) als du english 
“you" en du fransi “vous” . dis is du meest eenfak 
vis, en vil forbuig meni tveifls en unbehagli feilgrips 
in ferkeer, odr omgang mit di menshes. “ dau ” 
[thou]; fr. “ tu ” is nur brukn in biblish odr dikterish 
shrivart. 

“ utn ” (unless, except; deuch T auser, ausgenom- 
men); als, “mi vil gaa, utn hi kom” (i will go, unless 
he domes; deuch, ich werde gehen, ausgenommen er 
kommt). 

“utom” (without; d., ohne; hoi., buiten); als, 
“mi vil nit gaa, utom min trend.” 

“vil" is brukn als in english en skandinavish. 
“vil” hav tvo meenings. in du eena (first, erste) 
line, bedyd et “vil” (volition), en in d tvoa (2d, 2te) 
line bedyd et du sami als du deuch, werden , werde, 
wirst, wird; dus, “hi vil kom” (he will come; deuch, 
er wird kommen; skan., han vil komme). “du huus 
vil fal” (e house will fall” nsf.) dis satsbau vil 
kling somvat eigendomli to di deuchos, men de mus 
dok erinr, dat et is teutonish, en dat beid di angel- 
saksos, sovel als di skandinavos bruk “vil” mit dis 
idiom. 

dar is ok een andr ting to erinr; teutonish hav 
nemen di meest vorts fan du europani festland, veil 
di angelsaksos freud sig meest ovr du sprakleer, 
satsbau en in di idiomatish bruk af di entsprekand 
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(would, wolte) darfyr nit is (be) rekt to infoer so be- 
sondr en svaar (difficult) satsbau als mit “ verden ” en 
“ vurde'\ vard geworden. 

“ vorde ” (to become, to get), “worth” as “woe 
worth to me (woe come to me), woe worth the man; 
“woe worth” bedyd in english ‘‘woe becomes” 
(worth): deuch, iverden\ svergish vorda ; danish-nor- 
gish vorde; hollandish worden. alhav“o” utn du 
deuch werden mit “e”. “vorde” hav var (been) an- 
nemen anstat du english “become”, en du deuch 
“werden”. “vorde” is du best utgleik (compro- 
mise) form, dat vi kan find, en vilk kan meest leit is 
ferstandn bei angelsaksos, deuchos, skandinavos en 
hollandos. 

vardt is du best fortid (past tense) form, dat vi 
kan find so fern als di deuchos en skandinavos, an- 
gaa. “vardt” is brukn in du old rostock bibl-over- 
setl. veil di deuch sag meest “ vard ”, sag di skan- 
dinavos meest “ vart ”. vi hav, darfyr, shrivn 
beid “d” en “t”, als een kompromis, to mak du vort 
meer leit vederkenen, beid in deuchland, holland en 
di tri skandinavish londs, danmark, sverge en norge, 
so “ vardt ”. 

beispiels (exempls): hi vorde syJc (he becomes 
sick; deuch “er vird krank”. hi vardt syk (he be- 
came sick or he got sick; deuch, “er wurde (vard) 
krank”). “amerika vardt entdeken lJf.92 ”. in eng- 
lish is et shrivn, “america was (var) discovered 1492. 
dis english “was” (var) kling nit rikti in dis ferbindl. 
om (if, wenn) amerika was (var) entdekn 1492. den 
var et alredi at dat tid een utfoern (accomplished) 
handling . nu, om (if, wenn) entdeking var een ut- 
foern handling in 1492, muste du entdeking hav findn 
plas befor dat tid. vat do shrivo vul sag, var nit 
dat amerika var (was) entdekn 1492, men dat ameri- 
ka vardt (became, got) entdekn in 1492. 


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vi kan leit inse dat sodan vorts als, “vorde” en 
vardt is grad (just) so nytli to di angelsaksos als to 
di deuchos, skandinavos en hollandos. ven vi bruk 
“vorde” en “vardt” anstat, “become, became”, odr 
“got”, den ferandr vi dok nit du english satsbau, 
vilk vi hav givn di angelsaksos, als gegenvikt fyr di 
groot antal vorts nemen fan du teutonish festland. 

dar is een andr ting vilk di deuchos en hollandos 
vil find somvat svaar in du begin, en dat is dat du 
old infinitiv, endand an “en” is imr brukn als du for- 
tid partisip; fyr exempl, “hi hav findn”. nu “jin- 
den” is du deuch en hollandi infinitiv, men in teuton- 
ish is dis infinitiv beid imperfectum en perfectum; 
als, “mi givn (imperfectum), mi hav givn (perfect- 
um. di deuchos, sovel als di skandinavos en hol- 
laudos, mus imr erinr dat in teutonish hav du tidvort 
(verbum) gar kein besondr bieging (inflection) fyr in- 
finitiv, so dat vat se ut als een infinitiv, is imr een 
fortid form; als, “hi is komen” (gekommen) “hi is 
findn” (gefunden), “shi komen” ^sie kamm). 

om di students hav lernen good du ungeheur 
eenfak sprakleer, di tvoti-tri (23) unregli vorts, en di 
800 grund vorts, vil hi odr shi hav seer lit svaar u in 
ferstanding vat vi shal sag nak dis tid. 


veek en monatnams . 


een (1) eena (first, erste) 
eenad fan eena en “d” (day) 
eenad, Sunday (eena dag) 
tvoad, monday (2a dag) 
triad, thuesday 


firad, Wednesday 
femad, thursday 
sesad, friday 
syvad, Saturday 
Id - sun.; 2d - mon. 


monatnams: 


eenam, jan. (1st month) 
tvoam, february (2 m.) 
triam, march (3 m.) 
firam, april (4 m.) 
femam, may (5 m.) 
sesam, june (6 m.) 


syvam, july (7 m.) 
otam, august (8 m.) 
niam, September (9 m.) 
tiam, October (10 m.) 
tieenam, nov. (11 m.) 
titvoam, december (12 m) 


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vi mus dok lern di talvorts eena (first, erst), en 
den kan vi set “d” nak di ordentals fyr veekdags en 
set “m” nak fyr monatnams — billig nams! 

niu bookstaftals. 

a - 1, b 2, c 3, d 4, e 5, f 6, g 7, h 8, i 9, o s o, “a- 
o (ah - oh) 10, a - a (ah - ah) 31, a - b (ah - be) 12, b- 
o (be - oh) 20, b - a 21, a - b - c s 123, a - g - i - c * 
1793 * MDCCLXXXXIII. 

diese tals mus is (be) utsprekn jede bookstaf bei 
sig selv, so dat di tals vil nit is fervekseln mit andr 
vorts; “b - a - d” (be - ah - de) s 214. 

et vul is (be) good, om vi kun krig een sekr sys- 
stem fyr to benam vio bookstafs. vi vil for slag dis 
plan: lat al di selvlyds (vowels) “a, ae (a) e, ei, i, 

o, oe, u, y (ti) is benamen nak deo (their, ihre) eign 
lyds, en lat al d mitlyds (consonants) is benamen mit 
du sami selvlyds “e” utn “s” (es); so, “be, ce, de, 
fe, ge, he, je, ke, le, me, ne, pe, re, te, ve. dubl we, 
tze“ (z). ‘V’ fan “ce”. in bookstafing “fadr, 

modr”, kan vi sag, “fe - ah - de - re s fadr”, me - oh 
de - re 5 modr”, nsf, om al mitlyds had du sami 
selvlyds bei sig, kun vi meer klar hoer di virkli un- 
dersheids tushn di bookstafs. 

for sUbs- 

et is een seer glykli omstand, dat di teutonish 
spraks is so reik in forsilbs, fyrdat et ret (saves) vi 
fan lerning so meni niu ekstra grund vorts, als in 
meni andr tungs. je meer forsilbs en nak- 
s i 1 b s een sprak hav, desto meer ekonomish en 
selvklar is du sprak to du gemeen folk. je meer 
selvklar, bestemi (definite) en beshrivand een sprak 
is, desto meer leit kan een hoeg kultur is (be) op- 
holdn mang beid di hoeg en laag folkklases. al men- 
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li, selvklar en eenarti sprak. di forsilbs help fiel 
to mak vio fereensprak meer selvklar en ekonomish, 
dan latinish. 

et is nit noodvendi to beshriv hier al di teutouish 
forsilbs, als, “be, er, erz, ent, fer, ge, 
hen, un, zer”, fyr de is du sami in teutonish als 
befor. al di forvorts (prepositions) is ok brukn als 
forsilbs; fyr eksempl, “af, aftrek, afkom; for for- 
loop, forkom”, nsf. al andr vorts kan ok is brukn 
als forsilbs fyr beispiel, “fadr, faderland; modr, mo- 
dersprak; huus, huusdieno, huusknekt, huusfred”, 
nsf. dis kendaad (fact) mak teutonish du meest 
reik in du velt in forsilbs, dok vul et is (be) good to 
hav een venig (few) meere af de, fyr to mak vio fer- 
eensprak nok meer reik in dis good betreking (re- 
spect, bezieung). et vul help opfoeding (education, 
erzieung) seer fiel. je meer forsilbs vi hav, desto 
meere grundvorts kan vi benyt, utom to borg fan 
fremd spraks, als du fal var mang di old begavn 
griekos, die meest groot af al selvdenkos. 

el kan is brukn als forsilbs in gevis fals, vor 
(where, wo) kein andr forsilb odr forvort pas; “el- 
ded” (element) “elhevl” (elevator)’ nsf. ho kan is 
brukn als een fergrootand (augmentative) forsilb; 
als, hopriest, homan (giant, riese), nsf. shoen is 
een fershoenand forsilb, deelvis nu brukn, men vilk 
kun is fiel utvidn (extended); als, shoenshrift (cali- 
graphy), shoenbookshat (belles lettres), odr shoen- 
literatur, nsf. haes fan “haesli” (ugly), kan is an- 
vendn to beteekn somting viderli odr haesli; als, 
“haesshrift, haesshriveri, haesmaleri, haesarbeid”, 
nsf. dis “haes” is een pasand gegenforsilb to 
“shoen”; dus, “shoenmaleri, shoensprekeri, shoen - 
arbeid”, nsf. 

omshon (altho, obschon) vio teutonish moder- 
sprak is ungeheur reik in forsilb, is de dok forhold- 


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maati (relatively, verhaltnismassig) arm in naksilbs, 
darfyr mus vi help vio fereensprak bei making som 
niu en pasand naksilbs, to overtref (excel) latinish. 

naksilbs. 

beid do groot deuch en do groot danish sprakis- 
tes hav ervaenen du kendaad dat di teutonish spraks 
hav to venig afleedmitls (ableitungsmiteln). prof, 
gustav rumelin, kanslo af du universitat tubingen, 
sag in sin book, “ berechtigung der fremdivoerter” an 
side 28 en 29 als folgand: 

“Es hangt damit noch ein anderer Mangel unser- 
er Sprache zusammen. Sie giebt den Hauptw&rtern 
mit ihren Endungen auf heit, keit, ung, thum, niss, 
schaft einen festen Abschluss, der weitere Ableitun- 
gen erschwert, warend die alten und die romanischen 
Sprachen vom Hauptvort aus, das weit haufiger in 
Vokalen endigt, einen neuen Anlauf zur Fortbildung 
nehmen konnen. Aus der Tonkunst entsteht nur et- 
wa der Tonkustler, aus Musik aber der Musiker, 
Musikus, Musikant, musikalish, musiciren und Mu- 
sikalien. Wenn wir auch fur Kritik Beurtheilung, 
fur Centrum Mittelpunkt annehmbar linden wollten, 
wie sagen wir dann fur kritish, kritisiren, Kritiker, 
Kriticismus, kritkaster, oder fur central, centralisi- 
ren, Centralisation, Centralismus, Centralist, fur 
concentrisch, concentriren, Concentration ?” 

du meest vikti naksilb is gevis ei 2 , fyr fortid en 
fortid partisip; als, “mi givn (gave), mi hav givn, 
mi hav komen, seen, gaan, arbeidn, liebn, shrivn, 
singn,” nsf, dis “en” odr “n” hav var (been)vaeln 
fyr to angiv du fortid, fyrdat et is een halvvokal, 
seer musikalish, en ok du meest brukn en du meest 
utspredn fortidteekn in du velt. “en” es nit aleen 
teutonish; als, angelsaksish kumen (hav komen); 
deuch, gekommen , hollandi, komen ; skandinavish, 


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kommen ; islandi komin , men “en” is ok du passiv 
fortid partisip in di slavonish spraks; als, rusish, 
vidit (to se), viden (seen, gesehen; rusish, nesit 
(baer, carry, tragen) nesen (baern, carried, getragen). 
besids al dis is “n, en” bei natur du meest samfygi 
(coalescing) af al vio bookstafs, utn (except) “s”, 
vilk bild du meertal; dat bedyd, dat ‘ V’, kan is fygn 
to al andr bookstafs utom een tushenkomand (inter- 
vening) “e” odr andr vokal, utn “m” en “n”; sodan, 
mi hav singn, arbeidn, shrivn, komen, kenen, nsf. 
“n” is virkli betr en meer bekvem, dan een ful vokal 
leik “a, e, i, o, u, y, vul hav var (been). om vj had 
nemen een rein vokal to bild du fortid partisip an- 
stat “n” den vul du utsprek hav vardt (become) 
langr en meer svaar; als, “liebai,” (liebn), odr “sin- 
go” (singn). “n” hav var (been) annemen, fyrdat 
et is nu so brukn in teutonish spraks, en is du best 
teekn fyr du fortid partisip in du velt. 

and is du nutid partisip teekn; als, “singand” 
(singing, singend). du ursaak, varom vi hav nemen 
du opn vellydand svergish (swedish) “and”, is fyrdat 
“end” is to fiel leik “en”, du fortid partisip. fer- 
gleik “ singend ” en “singn” in snel sprekan. “sing- 
and” en “singn” is betr undersheidn “and” is fiel 
leik du latinish, italish en Spanish ando , en du fransi 
“ant”. an is brukn als een teekn fyr du infinitiv 
substantiv anstat en , fyr to krig een meer klar un. 
dersheid fan du fortid partisip, en fyr to krig du 
meer opn en vellydand “a” vokal, anstat du halv 
hoern ‘e”; als “fiel singan en sprekan’ (much sing- 
ing and speaking; deuch, viel singen und sprechen). 

“e” en “en” is brukn to fiel in deuch, en et hav 
ok to venig vokals- do gelernen deucho, prof, 
gustav rumelin, befor ervaenen, sag: 

“Unsere Sprache hat nicht alle und nicht lauter 
Vorzuge, sondern auch ihre Mangel. Zu diesen ge- 


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h$rt, das sie in Lautfylle und vohlkang hinter den 
aus dem Lateinichen stammenden Sprachen entschie- 
den Zurucksteht. Sie leidet nicht nur uberhaupt an 
Vokalarmuth und Consonantenhaufung, sondern sie 
hat auch unter alien Vokalen den ton und wirkungs- 
losen U allmahlig ein solches Uebergewicht einge- 
raumt, das die andern nur noch weit schwacher zum 
Wort kommen. Wie wohlthuend klingen fur unser 
Ohr Melodie , Harmonie , Phantasie, o.s.w.” 

ing is brukn als een verbal substantiv du sami 
als in hollandish, platdeuch en skandinavish; so, 
“goed singing, good regiring (regirung). “mg’’ is 
ok brukn als een gerundium teekn. sodan, “bei frag- 
ing (asking) kan man find du veg to Jerusalem.” 

‘ l ung” is brukn in ekstra fals, vor (where, wo) vi 
vensh to mak een ekstra undersheid fan du sami 
grundvort; als, bilding (building, deuch gebaude; 
danish, bygning) en bildung (kultur). 

nu mus vi fersoek to giv vio vokalarm eldeel 
(element, bestandtheil) meer selvlyds to mak et meer 
velklingand to vio nakkomos en to du ganz velt. vi 
mus do et in een so systemi (systematish) en so ut- 
strekn vis (wise, manner) dat et vil verkli vorde 
(become, werden) af bedydu. vi kan meest leit in- 
foer meer sevlyds at di end af vorts; als folgand: 

u is een ferkortl fan du english hood (hud), dom 
(dum), ure , ture , ude en fan du deuch ung, thum. 
“u” is setn nak vorts vilk endir (terminates) an een 
mitlyd, fyr to bild du abstrakt namvort (noun, no- 
men); so “good, goodu” (goodness), manu (manhood), 
veibu (womanhood), kindu (childhood, kindheit), die- 
pu (depth), langu (length), nsf. ‘V* is een seer 
leit vokal to utsprek. et hav var (been) kaln bei 
som orthoepistes (utsprekistes) du naturli vokal; als 
“du, hu, nu, vu, ru,” nsf. 

heid, is du meest leit kenen af vio old teutonish 


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abstrakteekens, en is een kompromis tushn eng 
hood; d., heit; h; held; danish-norgish hed , svergish 
het. vi leik dn form held best, fyrdat et hav du opn 
leit hoern dubl vokal “e£”, anstat du halv hoern 
dumpi C V\ als in du skandinavish hed n het. nu, dis 
held fan du hollandish is fygn (joined) to een vort fyr 
to bild du abstrakt, nak vorts, vilk endir an en selv- 
lyd; so, bube, bubeheid (boyhood, bubeheit); frie, 
frieheid (freedom); rikti, riktiheid; godli, godliheid, 
nsf. heid is meer leik “hood, hed, heid”, dan du 
hoegdeuch ‘‘heit orkeit’’. 

du ursaak varom vi set “heid” nakselvlyds is fyr- 
dat et is meest angenem ven een mitlyd folg en selv- 
lyd; als, “panama, fiorida,” nsf. 

do, da, du, di fyr di heufi artikls help fiel to mak 
vio fereensprak mindr vokalarm. vi kan ok bereik 
vio vokals in teutonish bei lating (letting) o stand 
als een hikin ^masculine) en als een algemeen person- 
li teekn, anstat “er”; so, “singo (singer), leero 
(teacher, lehrer); arbeido” (laborer, arbeiter), nsf. 
et mak kein undersheid, vedr vi sag, singo odr singer 
in een niu fereensprak. et mus dok is lernen als 
een niu sprak, men et vil is (be) best nu to mak et 
meer vellydand, dan di old teutonish tungs bei in- 
foering meere selvlyds to mak et mindr vokalarm. 

a is brukn to angiv du shikin (feminine), ven 
noodvendi; so, singa (songster, sangerin), leera (fe- 
male teacher, lehrerin), arbeida (arbeiterin), nsf. 

ven vi erinr dat ‘ V’ in “do” beteekn do hikin, 
en “a’’ beteekn da shikin, en il u” in “du” andyd (de- 
notes, andeuten) du keinkin odr du abstrakt, den find 
vi een logiki vekselbetr eking tushn diese vorts. 

vi hav ok meni andr vorts vilk endir an selvlyds, 
dat befor endirn an mitlyds, besondr mit di afleedn 
(derivative) beivorts; als, i in ‘ vindi” (windig) “san- 
di, godli, rikti”, nsf. li in “frendli” (freundlich), 


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“fiendli” (feindlich), nsf. “ig' is ok brukn in ein 
venig vorts, fyr to erhold een meer klar undersheid; 
als, “heilig” (holy); dis “^"is blot een ekstra nak- 
silb als “ung”, fyr to help vi to mak meere under- 
sheids fan di sami grundvorts. 

oft kan vi anvend du beivortform, anstat du nu- 
tid partisip an ‘‘emd’’; so, een “fortstrevi man”, an- 
stat “fortstrevand man”. vi kan ok anvend du 
beivort anstat du fortid partisip, als, “een velkeni 
huus”, anstat “een velkenen huus”. beid forms 
kan is brukn fyr afveksling, to bereik vio sprak in 
utdrykfermogn. 

dar is ok “o” mit di heufi besiti (possessive) fyr- 
vorts — “hio, shio, eto, vio, uo, deo, huo,” vilk vil 
help bedydli to fermindr vio velbekant vokalarmu. 
meerovr hav vi “a” mit di ordentals, “eena, toa, tria, 
lira,” nsf. vi hav ok du heufi on als du besiti teekn 
af al namvorts, in beid eental (singularis) en meertal 
(pluralis); anstat “s’’; als, “god’on huus” (god’s 
house, gottes haus), gods’on tempi (temble of the 
gods). een apostrof is altid brukn for an ’ on to mak 
et meer klar dat du besiti form is meenen. ’on hav 
du sami vellydand klang, als du griekish genetiv 
plural teekn li on’ (logon). ven vi ok utsprek vio 
vokals, “a, aa, e, ee, i, o, oe, (0) u, uu, y’’ (u, ue) 
meer ful en dydli, vil dat beidrag sin deel, to mak 
vio fereensprak veltoni (euphonious). 

vi mus meerovr erinr dat du svaar utsprekn eng- 
lish “£7&, w, wh ”, en du hard “j”, samt du svaar 
deuch gutteral “ ch ” is utverfn. vi darf nit gaa to 
vid mit inryking af selvlyds, andervis vil du sprak 
vord svak en eentoni, leik esperanto, italish, japan- 
ish, finish en di indiani tungs, nsf. al jene spraks 
is “overvokalisirn” (overvokalized). doorsiktiheid 
en kraft is dok meest vert, men vi kan ja gevis hav 


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een venig meere vokals, dan is nu findn in di old 
teutonish spraks. 

“ sliap” fan du hollandish, is kortr en meer 
leik du english “ship" en du skandinavish “sJcab’\ 
dan du langr en meer hard deuch “ schaft ”; als, 
frendshap, gesselshap, gesselshapli (gesselschaftlich) 
“ries’’ is ok anvendn in een venig vorts, ven noodven- 
di, to mak ekstra undersheids, vilk kan nit is makn 
mit du algemeen abstrakt-teekns “u, held , s/i<xp;”als, 
“hindernes, vildnes”. “tat” is anvendn als naksilb 
mit jene latinish vorts, vor et pas; als, “universi- 
tat, majestat, nsf. 

“es” is meertal-teekn nak al vorts, vilk endir an 
“ch,j, s, sh, st , z’\ “s” aleen nak “st” is so svaar 
to utsprek, dat vi hav inslutn “st’’ in du-regl. nak 
al andr vorts is “s” aleen tofygn, utn “fruen en 
heeren” (ladies and gentlemen), “es’’ is ok anvendn 
nak bei vorts. als in deuch, to bedyd “tings”; fyr 
eksempl, “ goodes ” (good things) fieles, (many things), 
nsf. 

vi hav nok een venig (few) mere naksilbs, vilk 
endir an een vokal to fermindr vio teutonish vokal- 
armu, sodan als “ eri ”, “brueri, bakeri, bookeri” (lib- 
rary) “ erlei ”, “tvoerlei, trierlei, menierlei,” nsf. 
“do”, “veldo (do well, benefit), veldo’er (benefactor, 
wohlthater). een apostrof is inrykn to vis (show) 
dat di tvo vokals is utsprekn treni (separately) als, 
“oh — e”, en nit leik oe (0); do in breeddo , varmdo 
(mak varm) nsf. “mak” is ok een nytli naksilb, bei 
vilk vi kan ferandr vorts to tidvorts (verba); “heilig- 
mak” (sanctify), “gradmak” (make straight), nsf. 
en somtids is brukn to tidvortir (verbalize) andr vorts. 

ir is dok vio hovd (chief, haupt), algemeen tid- 
vortmakl; als, “system”, systemir; organ, organir; 
klas, klasir (classify); end, endir (terminate); lang, 
langir (lengthen), odr ferlangr); nation, nationi (nat- 


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ional), nationir (nationalize); englishir (anglicize), 
deuchir (germanize); amerkanir (americanize); teu- 
tonir (teutonize). ven vi vil mak een namvort fan 
diese tidvorts, behoev vi blot to henfyg ‘V’, du 
groot abstraktbildl; so, klasir (to classify), klasiru 
(klassifizirung), systemiru (systematization), nsf. 

el is een seer nytli en vellydi naksilb to angiv 
du unpersonli virkingmitl, agent, odr ting vilk ut 
foer somting, odr somting mit vilk een ting is isand 
(being), don (done, gethan); als, “shuvl” (ting vilk 
shuv); d., “schaufel’’. “haendl’’, somting holdn in 
du haend (handle); ‘‘handl” (commerce), somting. 
vilk pasir door du haend. dis “el” or “1’’ is een 
ferkortl fan du seer heufi endl (skn, endelse) “ else ’ 
in di tri skandinavish spraks, samt een ferkortl fan 
du hollandish “seZ” “1” is een leit, velklingi, floedand 
lyd, en seer kort en bekvem, fyr to bild meni afledn 
namvorts, anstat imr bruking “mgr, er, o”, nsf. 

vi behoev grad (just) so vel een endl fyr du un- 
personli virkl, als fyr dopersonli virko; als, “treshr” 
or “thresho” (een person hu “fresh’’), men du ma- 
skin, vilk treshshul is kaln “treshl”. in english is 
beid do man hu tresh, en du maskin vilk tresh kaln 
“fresher” (thrasher). dis is to hindr undersheid- 
ings, en darbei to ferarm du geist. “1” is ok be- 
kvem mit vilk to andyd gevis konkret idees in fer- 
vant handling; fyr eksempl “erdbeshriving” (erdbe- 
schreibung), bedyd du handling; namli, du “erdbe- 
shriving”, men du konkret book selv is kaln, “erd- 
beshrivl'’ (skn. “jordbeskrivelse” en ok jordbeskriv- 
ning). dis leit, kort en bekvem “1” is fiel anvendn 
in teutonish to angiv du konkret unpersonli ting or 
mitl, or verktyg. “iZ” kan ok is anvendn als een 
variant af “el”; als, “sneidil” (kniv, knife), “shrivl” 
(shrivmashin), or “shrivil”; nsf. 

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een handling, omtrent leik u £r”; als, to viden’’ (to 
widen, to mak meer vid; broad), to sterkn (to 
strengthen), odr fersterkn. 

cm, im. 

em is so ungeheur vikti in niu teutonish als een 
objektiv teekn, dat vi hav givn “em” een ekstra 
overshrift mit hio brodr “i m”. 

als di lesos alredi veet, hav vi kein objektiv 
teekn in teutonish fyr gevoonli sprekan en singan, 
men vi kan dok anvend du objektiv teekn ‘ ‘em” in 
omvendn (inverted) satses; dat is, in dikterish (poet- 
ical), odr rederish (oratorical) satses, vor vi vensh to 
set do predikat, odr objekt befor du subjekt; so, 
“do sonem do fadr findn” (the father found 
the son). bei eenfak seting du objekt teekn “em” 
nak eni namvort, kan vi se dat et is du objekt; als, 
“hiem shi seen (him she saw), shiem seen 
hi (her saw he). “em” is brukn als objekteekn in 
so meni spraks dat it vil is leit anvendn n ferstandn. 

bei having een ekstra bestemi n unferanderli 
teekn fyr du akusativ, ven vi vil mak een ekstra dik- 
terish or rederish satsbau, odr vegnmeer afveksling, 
odr besondr opmerksamu, den is et nit noodvendi to 
bruk een akusativ teekn in gevoonli sprekan odr 
shrivan. ven du akusativ is brukn blot in omvendn 
satses, vil et vorde (become) foeln en genietn (en- 
joyed) als somting ekstra en feierli, men om du aku- 
sativ form altid is brukn, ferlier et sin fermogn to 
err eg besondr opmerksamu odr feierliheid. bei 
bruking “em” blot in omvendn en dikterish satses 
bliv (remains) du sprak in algemeen meer eenfak, en 
meer leit to lern at heim en in di utlands. bei hav- 
ing een ekstr acusativ teekn krig vi so fiel frieheid in 
satsbau als di griekos en romos; dus, „di loevems 


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jindn do jago“ (the hunter found the lions, (not, ,,the 
lions found the hunter). 

im is een seer nytli endl, bei vilk to andyd du 
person dat emfang (receive) een handling, odr een 
person fyr hu somting is don; als, ,,betalo“ (payer) 
en ,,betalim“ (payee, pay him, bezahlihn); ,,selo“ 
(seller), selim (vendee), leero, leerim (pupil, lehrling) 
givo (giver) ,,givim“ (emfang). et is grad (just) so 
nytli to have een teekn fyr do emfango, als fyr do 
givo, fyr to mak vio sprak reik in undersheidls en 
velklang. 

in is brukn to andyd (denate) somting vilk hav 
odr inhold eniting. ,,in“iseen forvort (prepositi- 
on) en bedyd ”in, inri invendi“, in kan, darfyr, nit 
is brukn logiki als een shikin (feminine) endl. in 
teutonish is ”in“ anvendn to bedyd en emfangl (re- 
cepticle) als ’’vaterin” (cistern), “ashin“ (ash barrel 
or box) “tintin“ (inkstand) nsf. 

“int“ kan is brukn als een variant; als, amtint 
(office room, wherin an office is held). 

am bedyd een samling af somting; als treeam 
(arborium) samling af trees (baume); bookam (libra- 
ry), odr “bookeri“. ‘ kan is brukn als naksilb 
to angiv een verktyg (tool), odr somting bei help af 
vilk en handling is utfoern; als, “farmits” (vehicles, 
somting to far [ride] mit); “shootmit (shooting uten- 
sils), nsf. “tyg” kan ok is brukn als du deuch 
“zeug”; hollandish “tuig“; du svergish “tyg”; du 
danish-norgish “toi” en english “toy”; als, spieltyg 
(playtoy, plaything; dc. spielzeug) “fartyg” (sailing 
vessels) “sneidtyg” (cutlery), nsf. 

et is seer leit en bekvem als naksilb to andyd du 
klein, een ferkleinand (diminutive) endl; als, “ huuset ’» 
(klein huus), nsf. “ chen ” is besondr brukn, ven vi 
vil angiv vat is “klein en lieb” (dear); als “huuschen’ 


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(dear little house); “kindchen” (dear little child), 
nsf- 

om bedyd vat is groot, en is een ferkortl fan 
ovrmaati (over measure; d. ubermassig); huusom 
(large mansion) manom (giant) oksom (gigantic ox), 
nsf. .vi behoev een fergrootand (augmentativ) nak- 
silb in teutonish. 

los (less), “frendlos en geldlos” (friendless and 
moneyless). “i, ish ”; als’ “sandi, vindi, bubish, 
maedenish, kindish, nsf. “sam”, als, “sparsam, 
arbeidsam”, nsf. haft , als, ‘‘sandhaft, mangelhaft”, 
nsf; “ arti ”, als, eenarti (homogenous) grootarti, nsf. 
“aJcti”: als, varakti, grootakti, nsf. “ verti\ als 
“eerverti, veetverti, nsf. 

dis is omtrent al di naksilbs vilk et is noodvendi 
to ervaen in du begin af dis fereensprak utn (exept) 
“’is” (se “is”). 


dyrnamgradiring. 


et is kaum (hardly) noodvendi to erinerir (memorize) be- 
sondr ekstra nams fyr hikin (masculine) en shikin (feminine), 
fyr old en jung, gros en klein mang di meer gering dyrs. fyr 
sodan vikti dyrs als “man, paard, oks, beihold vi di old nams, 
als, “man, veib, bube, maedn, kind; paard, maer, fylle; oks, 
ko, kalv, heifr, stier; men fyr di meer gering dyrs, vul et is 
betr to vio nakkomos en utlandos to hav blot di geslektnams, 
en angiv di old tveignams door een algemeen system mit kort 
naksilbs, als di folgand: 


hund, dog in general 
hundo, he-dog 
hunda, she-dog (bitch) 
hundet, puppy 
hundot, he-puppy 
hundat, she-puppy 
hundom, giant dog 


shaap, sheep in general 
shaapo, he-sheep 
shaapa, she-sheep 
shaapet, lamb 
shaapot, he-lamb 
shaapat, she-lamb 
shaapom, very large sheep. 


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dis is to sag, vi nem du meest bekant en bkvem nam af 
du art, odr gatting, vedr hikin odr shikin, en mak du annemen 
vort du grundlag fyr meer fern vortbilding; als, hen (huhn, 
hoene), heno, hena, henet, henot , henat, henom. 

samsprekan (conversation). 

in moeting een frend, odr koming into een huus, sag man 
eena (first): “good morgn, good dag” odr “goodavond”, nak 
d dagtid. di anspreknos (the ones spoken to) sag du sami. 
ven man afgaa sag man, “levvel” odr “goodbei”. nak sag- 
ing “good morgn, kan man frag, “ho is u?” (how are you?) 
odr “ho befind u uselv?” odr “ho gaa et?” odr “is u al 
muntr?”, nsf. 

vn man sprekn t een opvaksn person shul man gevoonli 
tofyg d algemeen titl heer (hr., sir, mr.); als, “good morgn, 
hr. smit”, odr “good dag, fr moses.” (mrs, madam moses), 
fr. (fru, misses, miss) is brukn to al mans, veedr heiraadn odr 
nit, du sami als heer (mr. sir) is brukn to al mans, veedr heir- 
aadn odr nit. di veibs shul hav du sami rekt en akting als di 
mans. ven man sprek to hoegr persons, kan man forset du 
titl, als befor in di andr teutonish spraks; dus, “uo hoegu” 
(your highness), “uo lordshap” (your lordship), “uo gnaade” 
(your grace), “uo ekselens, uo majestat, uo heiligu” (your 
holiness). 

ven man sprek to riktos (judges) , is du english vis du 
meest bekvem; als, “uo eero” (your honor), odr ven dar is 
meer dan een rikto, sag man “uo eeros” (your honors). 

lio rein? (how pure?) 

in vaeling vorts fyr vio fereensprak, hav vi nit betraktn 
et noodvendi nu to mak et meer rein fan fremdvorts, dan et is 
don in deuch, skandinavish n hollandish. dis is nit een frag af 
sprakreiniring, so fiels als af sprakeeniring. latinish, greek- 
ish n veetenshapli vorts, vilk is brukn in al di andr teutonish 
tungs an du europanish festland, anvend vi ok. 

o m gros forbookstafs. 

gros forbookstafs is ganz unnoodvendi. di old romos in 
d klasish latinish tid, had blot een sort af bookstafs, so fern 
als di gros en klein angaa, de had nur di gros, odr operkasi 
bookstafs. nu, om vi kan shriv ganz sides mit gros bookstafs, 
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bookstafs. in neidr fals is eni undersheid tushn du eena (first) 
en du lest bookstaf in du sats. dar is kein gros forbookstafs 
in korthaendshrivan (stenografie), neidr in fernshrivan (tele- 
grafie; dok is diese tvo shrivarts fyr geshaeft, vor genauheid 
is af groot viktiheid. om vi hav gros forbookstafs, vil vi 
dving al shoolkinds to lern en erinrerir titri (13) svaar abstrakt 
regls, to utfind, vor di ekstra gros forbookstafs shal is brukn. 

dar is ok een sykologish synd in bruking ekstra formirn 
gros forbookstafs; namli, jede vort vil den erhold tri (3) fer- 
shili ersheinels; als, “HUND, Hund, hund”; dat is, somtids 
vil een vort hav al gros forbookstafs, een andr mal vii blot d 
eena bookstaf is gros, en di andr klein en gemiksn. du tria 
mal vil al bookstafs is klein. hierdoor vil dar entstand (arise) 
tri (3) fershili ersheinels. dis bevirk een groot geistli nakdeel 
(disadvantage). lat vi filosofir een lit an dis punkt. in para- 
graf 9 in du inleedl (introductory), side 16, hav vi ferklarn dat 
du eena groot grundprinsip af sprakbilding is, “du 1 e i t u a f 
du ingivi virking is sterk in ferhold to di an- 
tal af mals, dat di vorts en idees hav var fer- 
bindn in du bevustu. (e ease v e suggestive action is 
strong in proportion t e number v times, that e words n ideas 
h bn associated in consciousness). lat vi nu anvend dis tru- 
heid an di gros forbookstafs. 

om een givn vort hav tri fershili forms odr ersheinels, 
kan kein af di forms vorde so oft seen, en vorde so fest organ- 
irn in du bevustu odr erinl, als ven du givn vort had nur een, 
en du sami form at al tids n plases. et is gar unlogish to hav 
tvo fershili bookstafs fyr een en du sami 1yd (sound). lat vi 
forutset (suppose) dat een hund ershein een dag als een hund, 
du nekst oogblik als een klein kalv, en du tria mal ershein du 
hund als een shaapet, vul et den nit vorde svaar t bliv bekant 
mit du hund. lat vi annem dat al tings omkring vi had tri (3) 
fershili forms odr gestalts, en dat diese gestalts ferandern sig 
fan een oogblik t du andr; dat jede ting ershein fershili todag, 
dan et don gestern odr forgestern, ven vi lest seen et, vul et 
den nit vorde ungeheur svaar t bliv bekant mit vio omgivels 
(environments)? je meer oft een vort is seen undr du sami 
form, desto meer fest vil dat form is organirn in du bevustu, n 
desto meer leit vil een vort is vederkenen n f erstandn. 

dar is nur een fernufti grund in gunst (favor) af gros for- 
bugstafs; namli, dat du shrift utse (look) betr; men to mi utse 
di klein bookstafs betr “hund” ershein meer shoen dan 
“HUND, (hund)”. een fest, bestemi, eenarti (homogene) 


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shrift is dok gevis betr fyr vio kinds, faderland en du velt, dan 
een unnoodvendi dubl system, vilk is dier, tidspendi en svaar 
fyr to begrip. vek mit di extra gros forbookstafs! ut mit de! 

12 ferkortls (abbreviations). 

vi hav alreedi shrivn so fiel teutonish, dat vi kan vaaag t 
bruk een venig (few) ferkortls, als vi don, ven vi shrivn english, 
fyr t mak du shrivan n lesan meer leit, nak di lesos hav vardt 
gevoonen (accustomed) t et. et vil mak vio fereensprak meer 
ekonomish en meer leit to di oogs bei anvending som ferkortls. 
du “fokus” af di oogs is klein, so dat ferkortls is meer leit 
seen mit eenmal, dan lang vorts. ven vi bruk som ferkortls 
vil di lang vorts is betr undersheidn, en se ut meer majestatish. 
bei 1yd lesan to andros, behoev di oogs nit beveg sig so snel t 
folg du stem. 

d, du (the. n.) dt, dat h, hav hd, had 

kn, kan m, mi n, en (and) nsf, etc. 

shl, shal t, to, too vl, vil vt, vat 

di arabish tals 2, 3, 4, nsf (and so fort) vl ok is brukn 
als vel bekant ferkortls, utn (except) “een’’ (1) n “eena” 
(first) is imr shrivn in ful, t ferbeug (prevent) misferstandls 
anstat “1” n “la”, vn vi shriv n dryk “kn, shl, vl”, den vl 
dar entstand een meer klar undersheid tushn “kn” n “kun”; 
“vl” n vul”, “shl” n “shul”, vilk vl help d leut fiel in snel 
lesan. diese venig ferkortls vl bereed du nation t ferstand 
meere af de. 

d old literatnr. 

et is oft fragn, “vt shl vi do mit d old literatur? shl a\ 
d heerli veisu (wisdom, weisheit), vilk is inholdn in di old books 
is ferlirn? oh nei, god bevar vi! et is nit so slim als dt. 
overset, overset (translate), di englishos hoversetn fan chaucer 
n alfred d groot, n fan al di andr old shrivos into modern eng- 
lish. di deuchos h oversetn fan d old hoegdeuch af karl d 
groot n meni andros into niu hoegdeuch. di shandinavos h 
oversetn fan islandish into sin niu norgish-danish n svergish 
spraks, evn d heilig bibl selv is een oversetl al vt vi veet om 
di griekos, romos, joods n andr utlandi gefolks h vi erholdn 
door oversetls. 

arthur Schopenhauer behovd dt nur een book in d 100 is 
vert t les odr overset, books sterv veg grad vi menshes do. 
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sig. venig old books is lesn, n lig dod in di bookeris. d eenli 
vis bei vilk d old literatur kn hold sig levand, is bei vederdryk- 
ing (reprinting) . vi kn meer leit overset fan vio nier f ervant 
spraks, english, deuch, skandinavish n hollandish into vio fer- 
eensprak, teutonish, dan fan di old fremd spraks, hebraish, 
griekish, islandish, fransi, italish odr rusish. teutonish is so 
nier vio old fervant tungs, dt et vl is leit t overset fan de. vi 
ttiog ferlir een reim hier n dar, men di idses n geist in vio good 
n rich old literatur kn al is bevarn door overseting. vi mus 
ok erinr dt d fereensprak kn nit is infoern in een jaar. vi kn 
nem 50 odr 100 jaars t infoer et in. d hovdsaak is t mak een 
begin nu, odr so bald alsmogli. heilistes, (physicians), pastors 
n anvalts ( attorneys b kn fortset (continue) t studir sin old mo- 
derspraks in sin betrefi orts, vegn di old books in medisin, reli- 
gi Dn n lq. ven man vederdryk old books, kn man grad so leit 
dryk de in di teutonish fereensprak. een groot niu shaar (host) 
af books vl bald entstand, bei side af di old eens, so dt d teuton- 
ish folkstam [race] vl den vorde di mitervos (coheirs) af d 
meest rich literatur an d erdbal. 


dikting (poetry). 

po’esie kn man shriv in al spraks, fydat al tungs mus h 
vorts, idees n endls. et behoev blot een begavn man odr veib 
t saml di vorts n idees, mit d rikti geist, maat n reim. d 
sprak mus eena h var (been) brukn til et vorde bekant n lieb t 
d folk, n den kn de geniet dikting in d rein, eenfak n regli 
fereensprak. omshon (altho) do ferfaso h kein gave als dikto, 
h hi dok inrykn een klein oversetl, als beginproev. 


d glykli land. 

(e happy land) 

dar is een glykli land, 
fern, fern vi sag, 
vor heiligos al stand, 
klar, klar als dag, 
oh, ho de soetli sing, 
verti is do reto king, 
lyd hio prieses ring, 
pries, pries to hi. 


teutonish. 

om kirks n religion. 


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in vio tid h di kirks n d religion een hard kamp t doorf ekt 
init gleikgyltiheid, lauvarmu n veltklogu, men tru religion vl 
altid bstand, fyrdat d lieb fyr godli (divine) dienu (service) lig 
in d menshli natur. pastors n kirks vl daris (exist), so lang 
als d velt stand, under dis odr dt form, evn di meest liberal 
leut h sin pastors n kirks, religion mus naturli entvikl sig t 
meer n meer fuldkomenu, grad d sami als shools, regirings, 
veetenshap n spraks. je meer fernufti n veetenshapli een 
riligion is, desto betr, n je meer religioni (religious) d veeten- 
shap is, desto betr. at lest vl dar entstand een fereening 
tushn religion n veetenshap, so dt beid vl vin darbei. 

ho t lev rekt (how to live right), is d groot frag fyr 
di menshes t entdek. vi is kein teologs, men dar is som punkts, 
vilk vi shul leik t forfyr, fyr vt de mog is vert, n dt is, dt di 
kirks shul leg meer vikt on plikts (duties), plikttreuheid, fred- 
liheid, eerliheid n faderlandlieb, samt gehoersamu tovards di 
lqs af d land, n lieb tovards menshes n dyrs. vi h nit seen 
god, n kn nit begrip hi mit vio svak fernuft, men vi h seen 
menshes n dyrs. vi h al smert n freud tosamen. 

do groot fyrst bismark saed eemal in een hamburgi rede, 
dt “d tru konservatismu bestand in anneming 
nytli f ebet r i ngs; e en kompromis tushn d old n 
d n i u. ” dis is een andr vink t vio liebi kirks, d praktish tid- 
geist vis sig nit nur in d politik, men ok in di shools n tidings, 
over al kom d nytli n praktish t d forshein. in vio universi- 
tats is studirn gradvis mindr n mindr di old dod spraks, hebra- 
ish, griekish n latinish, veil di levand tungs vorde studirn meer 
n meer; als, english, deuch,, fransi, Spanish, n evn turkish, 
rusish n kinaish. dar is nu so fiel t lern om mashinerie mate- 
matik, astronomie, geshikte, burgerli ferfating, fysiologie, 
sykologie, biologie, sociologie, plantleer, dyrleer, fysik, n haend- 
verk, dt jung leut kn unmogli lern so meni af di dod spraks, als 
in d midelaltr . d tid h ferandrn sig, meni niu kirks h afshafn 
hoeg kirktaurs n kloks. jnng students kn seldn bemeestr 
meer dan 2 spraks, sin modersprak n een levand fremd tung. 
di dod klasish spraks mus gradvis is tosidesetn, n man mus er- 
kund sig om di old gedenks af di griekish n latinish shrivos door 
geshikte n overseting, vilk man kn nu betr ferstand n geniet. 

di kirks sfiul benyt al gelegenus t insharp d foeling af 
frendliheid, eerliheid n rektferdiheid tushn mans, veibs n re- 
girings. ho t lev rekt, so als t eer god bei making di 


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menshes betr meer broderli n meer glykli is d grootest af al 
frags. ho t fermindr liv’on plags, siku n armu, mus is een 
fomem bestrevl. landmonopolie, als in rusland, is slim fyr 
patriotism!!. 

di kirks shul do meer dan hiertofor t beleer sin jung mit- 
lims t is meer forsikti mit heiraadan (marriage), meni geleer- 
nen n velmeenand social beopaktos denk, dt et vul is betr fyr 
di armos n meer sekr fyr di richos n di regirings, om leut, 
hu h gar kein fermogn, odr eigenu (property), heiraadn sig nit, 
men dargegn helpn andr leut mit een lit eignu n mit een gesund 
korper n geist t heiraad sig. “een edel liv”, sag Schopen- 
hauer, “is een heroish n selvopofrand liv.” keushu (chastity) 
altruismu n selvbehershu is unbetingn (absolut) noodvendi, fyr 
t erlang t d meest hoeg grad af bildung n nationi velfaru. 
om d staat shal ernaer di armos, shul et ok h d rekt t reglir 
heiraadan. 

so ungeheur fiel elend entstand fan unkeushu t individs, 
families n staats, dt et mus ja gevis is d plikt af d kirk t ge- 
genvirk d last (vice) af unkeushu. om t meni arm leut hei- 
raadn sig n hd groot families, vul dar entstand meer armu, nn- 
veetenu, ferbrekls, nedrig loons, odr arbeidlosu, vilk mog vorde 
gefarli t d ganz gesselshap. 

pastors t arbeid fyr een fereensprak. 

ven vi anmod di kirks in al londs n in al gros folkstams 
t arbeid, an al pasand gelegenus, fyr een fereensprak, vl gevis 
meni persons denk, dt vi leg t fiel byrde (burden) an di pastors, 
men et is grad bei baering meni byrdes dt di pastors vorde 
sterk, nytli, liebn n aktn bei sin mitmenshes n sin tid. pa- 
stors anroop (appeal), meer dan eni andr kaling, td foeling, 
gemyt n gesinning. d anneml af een fereensprak, beru hovd- 
saakli an d gemyt; darfyr, kn pastors n shoolleeros hier do fiel 
good. in d midelaltr, arbeidn di priestos fyr en fereenen re- 
ligion, fyr t bind d folk tosamen in eendraektiheid (unision). 
di kirks don fiel good t bildung at dt tid. d tru religion is verk- 
li d sami mang al gefolks; namli, frendliheid, eerliheid, rekt- 
ferdiheid. faderlandlieb, helpsamu n lieb t god, menshes n 
dyrs. 

om vi hd meer venig (few, faa) spraks, vul leut ferstand 
eenandr betr, vorde meer bekant door personli omgang, n door 
tidings n boks. is dis nit een heilig saak fyr di kirks t arbeid 
fyr? meni mans vl mogshee sag; “hi hu opgiv sin mo- 


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dersprak, giv sig selv op.” vi mus dok erinr dt een 
fereensprak vl bevaar vio moderspraks in een ferbetrn n rein- 
irn gestalt, so dt et kn in tokom nit is overvinen bei een fremd 
veltsprak, vlk vl is annemen durand dis jaarhundr. bei anne- 
ming een fereenen sprak, is et kein frag om gevalti erobring; 
men nur een frag om goodvilig n fredli taushan (exchange) af 
vorts vilk tohoer d sami folkstam. et is blot een grootarti, 
broderli, frievilig mitvirking, fyr t bevaar vio teutonish vorts 
gegn een tokomi romanish veltsprak. een sprak fyr d ganz 
velt, vul nit is good fyrdat, jede gros folkstam h so fershili 
vorts, gemyt, gesmak n denknuansen, dt et vul ferarm d geist 
t h nur een eensig sprak. een folk kun nit lern so fiel fan du 
andr, als ven jede gros folkstam hd sin eign liebi sprakmaterial. 
menshlieb shul is meer sterk, dan lieb fyr een klein dialekt. 
ferstand n foeling shul gaa tosamen. 

nak dis plan vul dar is 5 groot veltspraks, anstad meer 
dan 500; namli, teutonish, romanish, slavonish, semetish n mon- 
golish. ven al diese 5 fereenspraks vardt makn eenfak, regli 
n fonetish mit latinish bookstafs, vul et vorde leit fyr een 
sprakist t lern al jene 5 sprak s, n dt vul trek leut meer tosa- 
men in broderli ferstandnes, n erleit (facilitate) reisan, handl n 
deplomatie. evn om dar var 5 fershili veltspraks, vul dok teuto- 
nish spiel d hovdrolle, n vorde d central veltsprak, vegn eto 
hoeg fortshrift n gros n ferbreedn velthandl. vul et nit is een 
edl arbeid fyr di kirks t help d velt in dis betreking? vi h 
ervn meni old forurdeels vilk tren vi fan eenandr. ven di 
pastors vul is frendli tovards een algemeen teutonish fereen- 
sprak, n shriv artikls in di tidings in gunst fyr dis heilig mensh- 
samland idee, den vul di shools n d pres ok vorde meer frendli. 

om kein mensh shul ferandr sin modersprak een lit, so 
als t mak et meer regli n fonetish, den muste jede klein dialekt 
imr is als nu — kein fortshrift! irish, skotish, velch, mek- 
lemburgi, friesish, di sveisish, danish, norgish, svedish, samt 
polish n ungarish, so vel als jede neger dialekt, muste nimr is 
ferbetrn odr systemim, fyrdat, als de sag ,‘hi hu opgiv sin mo- 
dersicrak, giv sig selv op”. dis is engherti, halstari, unbro- 
derli, n gegn algemeen kultur. partikularismu is d fluk (curse) 
af d velt. om di teutonos vul set een good beispiel af feran- 
dring sin modersprak, vul et nit is so svaar n unbehagli fyr 
klein naborfolk t annem et, als di hollandish n sveisish dialekts, 
di bohemish, polish, ungarish n griekish klein abspraks. ven 
vi selv ferandem vio spraks, vegn eenigheid n algemeen fer- 
standnes, den kn vi sag t di polos, bohemos, ungaros n griekos, 


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hu h t klein spraks selv, ‘ ‘ferandr uo spraks, vegn algemeen 
ferstandnes, samvirking n bildung; vi h ok don dt.” 

ven vi predik t vio eign folk dt de mus nit ferandr sin 
modersprak, n at d sami tid f erlang dt di norgos shal annem 
danish; di irishos ii skotos annem english; bohemos n ungaros 
shal annem deuch, den is vi nit logish. et shul is d sami rekt 
fyr alos. om vi selvs ferandr vio moderspraks, vegn algem- 
een ferstandnes, mitvirking a bildung kan vi, mit meer kraft 
n makt ferlang dt audr folks under vio regirings ok shal fer- 
andr sin spraks, vegn algemeen ferstandnes n ferkeer, fyr 
vi h den givn de vio eign good beispiel. ven vi annem een 
algemeen niu teutonish fereensprak, vegn betr ferstandnes, n 
bekvem fredli ferkeer. et is ungeheur unbekvem t h so meni 
fershili klein spraks, als in ostreik. di kirks n tidings kn 
do fiel t ferandr d folkmeening in dis betreking, om de hd een 
meer kristli n broderli gesinniog. 

vi hoer fiel spreken om “lieb t d modersprak”, 
men ven vi annalysir dis foeling, vl vi find dt et beru nit so 
fiel an lieb t moder, odr d sprak, als et beru an eigen sinn, 
selvlieb, n an egoismu. meni menshes h lernen du unregli 
english, deuch odr skandinavish, darfyr 1yd diese spraks meer 
good t di old leut, n darfyr, vl de nit hoer odr se sin old spraks 
ferandern. jene old leut vl lev blot een venig jaars an dis erd, 
dok nur t behag sin eign oors n oogs een kort tid, is de vilig t 
dving eenjens (millions) af kinds fyr tusns n eejens af jaars t 
sprek di sami unregli klein dialekts als de selv h sprekn. i s 
dis rekt??. moder var dvingn t sprek di unregli dialekts. 
een man kn lieb sin modr n sin faderland grad so good mit 
“teutonish”, als mit english, deuch, skandinavish n hollandish, 
om di kirks vul sag so. 

vi mus nit blot denk om di modrs in di gravs, n ferget al 
tokomi modrs. ho fiel betr vul et nit is fyr al modrs in d 
tokom, om deo liebi kinds hd een leit, eenfak, regli n vid fer- 
standn teutonish fereensprak? veibs is fiel meer frendli tovard 
teutonish dan di mans. vi ferlang nit dt di teutons shl annem 
een fremd tung, men blot dt d teutonish folkstam shl veder- 
fereen sig an een gemeensam sprak als vio urold forfars hd in 
d fortid. vi hop dt dideuchos vl lieb di hollandos so fiel dt 
de kn innem een venig hollandish vorts, grad so heilig n teu- 
tonish als deuch vorts, n dt hollandish shl lieb di deuchos, so 
fiel dt de kn innem som deuch vorts, grad so heilig n teuton- 
ish als hollandish vorts. beid deuchos n hollandos shul lieb 
di skandinavos, s fiel dt de kun inryk een venig skandinavish 


teutonish. 


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vorts, grad so heilig n teutonish als di deuch n hollandish vorts. 
al tosamen mus lieb di englandos n amerikanos so fiel dt de kn 
innem into d fereensprak d eenfak english sprakleer, satsbau 
n een venig vorts fan teutonish english, fyr t mak een gemeen- 
sam sprak fyr vio ganz teutonish folkstam. dt vl vorde be- 
kvem fyr vio nakkomos n fyr d heel velt. dis plan is gevis 
meer klog, dan nur fyr jede folk t lieb sig selv, utom t bekumr 
sig om d velfaru af di andros. 

d 20a jaarhundr mus proev t overtref di fori tidloops in 
broderliheid n sprakfereeniring. 

ven di skandinavos n hollandos nur lieb sigselvos, den mus 
di deuchos n englandos do d sami in selvferteid. ven al teu- 
tons hold sig tosamen in sprak, den vl d teutonish vorde d aner- 
kenen international sprak in utlondi handl tushn fremd nations, 
mit fershili spraks. om england n di fereenen staats, shul nit 
anslut sig t dis fereensprak, kun deuchland trek Scandinavia, 
holland, belgia, sveis n ostreik into een sprak, n at d sami tid 
mak it so leit t al di english-sprekand folk t lern, so vel als t 
di andr nations, dt teutonish vul vorde international n overflygl 
english als veltsprak, n beleer d ganz velt meer dan befor, door 
d fereenen deuch skandinavish n hollandish books n tidings, dis 
leit, eenfak, selvkar, ekonomish teutonish fereensprak vul is 
meer leit t infyr in di kolonis n mang klein naborlonds, als, 
griekland, bosnia n ungaria. et vul ok is meer leit fyr deuch, 
skandinavish n hollandish utvandros t bevaar dis leit, eenfak n 
regli teutonish fereensprak in amerika, asia n afrika dan di old 
unregli n sondersplitn spraks de vul help eenandr t bevar et. 
vi behoev een meer algemeen “teutonish seel”, omshon 
vi hd een gemeensam sprak, kun dok jede nation regir sig selv, 
als befor. 


d kort skandinavish pasiv an u is” . 

beid english n deuch mangl een kort eenfak n direkt lide- 
form (pasive form); als, ,,hi lieb’is” (eng). „hi is loved”; 
dc, “ervird geliebt”; skan, “han elsk’es” (lov’is, is loved), 
vi h ferandrn “es” t “is”, fyrdat “es” is d meertal teekn in 
teutonish in so meni vorts ; als, 2 menshes, 3 hunses, nsf . 
,,is” is betr undersheidn; als, “dau 1 i e b’i s” (thou art loved; 
dc; “du wirst geliebt”; latinish, a mar is. 

dis kort, direkt licleform bruk nur 2 vorts, anstat 3, n is 
seer leit t ferstand n anvend, et is een levand form mang 3 


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af di meest ekt, unmiksn n opklarn teutonish nations. dis 
kort n direkt lideform bruk’is (is brukn) meest in nutid (pre- 
sent tense), bei toleging “i s” mit in apostrof, t vis meer dydli, 
dt d pasivform meen’is (is meant), ven vi vl bruk dis pasiv- 
form mit di fortid (past tense), kn vi blot set “’is” nak d for- 
tidi form; so, “findn” (found, gefunden), hi findn’is (he was 
found), beid english n deuch is omsvevand, lang, n unbekvem. 
dis direkt pasiv kn bruk’is (be used, is brukn) odr nit, fyr af- 
veksling; men vi vl bruk et hiernak, meer odr mindr, t vis eto 
anvendbaru n nytliheid. et is ja teutonish, n seer bekvem, n 
leit t lern n t bruk. 


ekstra 

adl, nobility 

afgaa, go away; abgehn 
afkom, posterity, descendent 
afloes, relieve, release 
afreis, depart; abreisen 
afsheid, depart, farewell 
akr, acre, plowed field 
akerbau, agriculture 
aleen, alone; alein 
altar, altar 
altid, always; immer 
altr, age; alter 
andeel, portion; antheil 
andervis, otherwise; anders 
andyd, denote; andeuten 
anfal, attack, assult 
angaa, concern; 
angenem, pleasent 
angiv, suggest, imply 
angivi, suggestive 
angrip, onset, assail 
anhar, persevere 
anhold, to stop, to halt, 
ankr, anchor 
anklag, complain, accuse 
anklago, plantiff, accuser, 
annem, accept, adopt 
ansikt, view, viewpoint 
anspruk, claim 
anstel, institute, arrange 
antalt, institution 
anteekn, denote, connote 


vortliste. 

anvis, to show, instruct 
apl, apple 

arg, mischievious, bad 
avondmaal, supper 
avonteur, adventure , 
baan, track, road, course 
baer, bear, to carry 
bak, bake, backen 
band, band, bond 
baron, count 
beamte, official 
bed, bed; bett 
bedenk, consider 
bederv, injure, destroy, 
bedien, serve, 

bediente, clerks, servants, hel- 
pers 

betingel, condition, proviso 

bedroev, grieve, to trouble 

been, bone; bein 

bedyd, signify; bedeuten 

befeel, command 

begivenu, event; begebenheit 

begrav, burry; begraben 

begravl, funeral 

behandl, treat, handle 

behar, persevere. 

beharliheid, perseverance 

benebl, befog 

benem, behave 

beneml, behavior 

bengl, rascal, 


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beopakt, observe 
beopaktli, observiving 
bereik, enrich 
berg, hil, to save 
berst, burst 
beset, beset, plague 
besieg, conquor 
besirk, district 
besherm, protect, quard 
beshyt, protect, shield 
beroop, calling, vocation 
beslut, conclude 
bestandi, constant 
bestem determine, define 
bestemi definite; bestimt 
bestuts, astonished 
besvaarli, tedious, tiresome 
bestyr, administer 
betl, beg, betteln 
betrakt, consider 
beute, prey, booty 
bev, tremple, quake 
bevl, trembling 
bevilg, grant; bewiligen 
besviem? swoon, 
bishop, bishop 
blaas, blow; blasen 
blad, blade, leaf; blatt 
biet, bite; beissen 
bit, bit, little, bischen 
bleek, pale; bleich 
blik, look, glance 
bogn, vault 
boodshap, message 
book, book; buch 
bookstaf, letter; buchstab 
boot, boat 
bore, bore, drill 
braad, broil, fry; braten 
braut, bride 
brautgam, bridegroom 
brautloop, wedding 
brav, brave, good 
breed, broad, breit 
brek, break 
bret, board (sawed) 
bring, bring 
broel, bellow 
broveif, brother’s wife 
bubish, boyish 
bubeheid, boyhood 
buldr, noise 
burgo, citizen; buerger 
buig, bend, inflect 


buik, stomach 

bund, alliance; bund 

bundi, concise 

bus. box 

butr, butter 

byd, offer, bid 

byks, pants, 

dagto, date; dato 

dalfoer, valley- course 

danmark, denmark 

dans, dance 

darf, dare 

darfyr, therefore 

darm, intestine 

daum, thumb 

deelir, divide, partition 

desto, the more (comp.) 

deuch, german 

deuchland, germany 

deugd, virtue; tugend 

deut) particle, iota 

dienferai, ready to serve 

dijene, those there, yonder 

dik, thick 

dike, dike 

dikt, close, dense 

dingan, hire, speak for 

diep, deep 

dis*on, belonging to this 

dondr, thunder; donner 

do’er, actor, do’er 

dorp, villiage; dorf 

doterman, daughter’s husband 

doterson, daughter’s son 

drag, drag, carry; tragen 

dring, throng, crowd 

drink, drink; trinken 

driv, drive, treiben 

drivu, a drive, driving 

droem, dream; traum 

drokn, dry; trocken 

drop, drop; tropfen 

dropl, drop, dnpple 

dryk, press; druck 

duik, dive 

dum, folish 

dunkl, dark 

dus, thus; so, wie 

dyn, thin 

dynk, seem 

dvaas,, folly, bosh 

edl, noble, good 

eet, eat; essen 

eetbaar, eatable 


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eethuus, eating-house 
eenfold, simple, simplex 
eensam, lonesome 
eg, egg; eier 
eign, own 
eigentli, really 
eigenshap, quality 
eil, ile, hurry; eilen 
eiland, island; insel 
eirn, iron; eisen 
ek, corner; eck 
ekt, genune; echt 
ektstand, matrimony 
ektgenoot, married mate 
eltr, parent 

emfang, recieve, empfangen 

emfind, feel, discern 

emfiindli, sensitive 

end, end, finis 

endli, final, lastly 

eng, narrow, contracted 

enthovd, behead 

entgegn, towards 

entgegenkom, come towards 

entken, deny 

erfindsam, inventive 

erfindl, invention 

erken, acknowledge 

erd, earth 

erdapl, potato 

erdbal, hemisphere 

erdbeer, strawberry 

erdbevl, earthquake 

erdbeshrivl, geography 

erklar, declare 

erlang, attain, reach 

ernst, earnest 

ernstli, earnstly 

ersinn, meditate 

ervaen, mention 

erv, inherit 

erverv, acquire 

esl, ass, mule 

evenir, to level 

evig, eternal 

evigu, eternity 

fak, profession, branch 

fabl, fable 

fabro, father’s brother 
falir, fail 

famodr, father’s mother 
fafadr, father’s father 
fantrek, subtract 
farm; bauerhoff, landgut 


farv, color 

fasistr, father's sister 
fedl, fiddle, violin 
feil, fail, fault 
fein, fine 
feld, field 
ferakt, despise 
feraktli, contemptible 
ferandr, change 
ferban, exile, banish 
ferbetr, improve 
ferbid, forbid 
ferbliv, remain, 
ferborgn, hiden 
ferbreko, criminal 
ferbrekl, crime 
ferdag, adjourn 
ferdau, digest 
ferdauli, digestible 
ferdien, earn, merit 
ferdienu, service 
fereen, unite 
fereenli, agreeable 
fereensl, isolate 
ferfal, decay 
ferfat, compose, write 
ferfato, author 
ferfoer, mislead, seduce 
ferfoerl, seduction 
ferfoero, seducer 
ferfolg, prosecute 
fergilt, repay 
fergevs, vain, useless 
fergift, poison 
fergniet, enjoy 
fergnog, pleasure 
ferhyt, heed 
ferklar, explain 
ferlang, demand 
ferleed, mislead 
ferlir, lose; verlieren 
fermeid, avoid 
fermitls, by means of 
fermod, suppose 
fermodli, supposedly 
fermodu, supposition 
fernekt, deny 
fernits, annihilate 
ferrvkt, insane, crazy 
fershoon, save, spare 
fersprek, promise 
ferson, conciliate 
fersonand, conciliating 
fersonli, conciliatory 


teutonish. 


93 


ferstoer, disturb 

ferstoero, disturber 

ferstyr, destroy 

fersvend, wasting 

fersvind, dwindle away 

ferteer, consume 

fertel relate 

fertolk, interpret 

fervir confuse 

ferviring, confussion 

fervundr, wonder at 

fervyst, to desolate 

frend, friend 

find, find 

fingr, finger 

finstr, dark 

fish, fish; fisch 

flak, flat, level 

flash, bottle 

flat, flat; flach 

flek, spot, speck 

flesh, meat, flesh 

flink, quik, dilligent 

flood, flood 

fluk, swear, curse 

flusiheid, fluidity 

flusiform, fluid form 

fodr, fodder, feed 

forbeug, prevent 

fordre, require; fordern 

fordring, requirement 

foot, foot; fuss 

forkom, occur, happen 

fomem, genteel, polite, 

fornemli, principally 

fornemu, gentility 

fortbring, produce 

forbringl, product 

forurdeel, prejudice, 

forutset, suppose 

fragli, questionable 

frank, frank, franc 

frans, france 

fransi, french 

frei, to court, (woman) 

freierman, a beau 

fremd, strange, foreign 

fres, eat (cattle) 

friebriv, charter 

fro, glad, happy, 

froli, gladly, willingli 

from, pious, goodly 

frymaal, breakfast; fruehstuek 

fur, furrow 


gang, walk, aisle 
gap, gape 

gaard, farm, bauernhoff 
gaardo, farmer, bauer 
gave, gift, donation 
gebyr, pay, duty 
gebyrand, proper, fitting 
gebyrli, properly, seemly 
gebryl, noise, howl 
geel, yellow, gelb 
geduld, patience 
geduldi, patient 
gefekt, fight, battle 
gefeur. confligration 
gefoel, sentiment 
gefoelful, sentimental 
gegensprek, contradict 
gegno, opponent 
gehalt, salary 
gehoer, hearing 
gehoerli, adequate 
gehoersam, obedient 
gehork, listen, obey 
gehyl, great howling 
gek, gawk, fool 
gelegenu opportunity 
geling, succeed 
gemaati, moderate 
gemakli, cozy, handy 
gemyt, disposition 
gemytli, social, happy 
gemytliheid, sociability 
genau, accurate 
genes, convalesce 
geniet, enjoy 
genog, enough 
gereedshap, utensils 
gereik, reach, attain 
gerekt, just, equitable 
gerikt, court of justice 
gering, triffling, smaal 
gnaad, grace, mercy 
gnaadig, gracious 
geshaeft, business 
geshrei, great screaming 
geshriek, gr. shrieking 
gestalt, form, shape 
gestern, yesterday 
gevalt, force, violence 
geveen, gr. crying 
gevikt, weight 
gier, greed 
gieri, greedy 
giriheid, greediness 


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giet, pour out 
gilt, counts for 
glat, smooth, slippery 
gleik, alike, equal 
glid, glide; gleiten 
goodmodi, good-natured 
good morgn, good morning 
good dag, good day 
good avond, good evening 
good bei, good-by 
grad, just, straight 
gradli, gradual 
gradvis, gradually 
gram, remorse, sorrow 

grau, gray 

grav, grave 
griekish, greek 
gril, whim, notion 
grilhaft, notional 
grin, grin, laugh 
groen, green 
grundlq, constitution 

ryt, greet; gruessen 

agl, hail 
hals, neck 
halstari, obstinate 
halvtri, half past 2 o’kl. 
hat, hat; hut 
haut, skin, hide 
havand, having, habend 
heimfar, ride home 
heimvee, home-sickness 
heiraad, marry, wed 
heit, hot 
helt, hero 
heltmodi, heroic 
hetz, excite, set on 

hel, light, bright 

hem, hem, confine 
henlangli, sufficient 
hensikt, aim, view 
herkom, descend 
hertcg, duke; herzog 
hev, heave, elevate 
hil, hill; huegl 
hodan, how is it 
hoegakt, high esteem 
hoegleero, professor 
hoegmodi, haughty 
hoefli, polite, courteous 
hoelle, hell 

hold, hold; halten 
hoop, heap; haufen 
hovdital, capital 


hovdman, captain 

huld, homage, favor 

hust, cough 

hyl, howl 

hylle, shelf 

hyr, hire 

hyt, heed, care 

hytte, hut 

imr, ever; immer 

inblik, insight 

inbrek break in 

inbreko, burglar 

insaug, imbibe 

inaktnem, observe 

influsreik, influential 

infoersel, importation 

innem, take in 

inrikt, arrange, instute 

inrikting, institution 

inriktl, arrangement 

inse, see into 

insee, lake, inland sea 

invilg, concede, grant 

invand, objection; einwand 

invandr, immigrant 

ir, err, eror; irren 

irlikt, wrong light 

irleed, lead wrong 

irveg, false, road 

ja, yes 

jag, hunt; jagen 
jamr, lamentation 
jamerdal, vale of woe 
jo, yes (conceded) 
kaffe coffee 
kant, edge, region 
kasse, treasury 
kassiro, trasurer 
kaunti; kreis, distrikt 
keind, kind; milde 
keindnss, kindness; guete 
ken, know, recognize 
kenu, knowledge 
kette, chain 
ketl, boiler, kettle 
keush, chaste, pure 
keim germ 
kiek, look, peep 
kiekl telescope 
kin, sex 
klag, complain 
klap, clap (hands) 
kleb, cleave to, stick 
kling, sound, cling 


teutonish. 


95 


kneip, pinch 
knekt, nouse servant 

knie, knee 

knif, trick 
kniv, knife 
kold, cold; kalt 
korv, basket 
krank, sick 
krankint, hospital 
kreis, circle, circuit 
kruip, crawl 

kugl, bullet 
kunde, learning, lore 
kundshap, knowledge 
kvel, source, fountain 
kvitir, to receipt 
kvitirl, receipt, release 
kys, kiss; kuss 
laam, lame 
ladn, store, layer 
lq, law; gesetz 
langton, telephone 
langshriv, to telegraph 
langshrivl, a telegraph 
langshrivam, telegram 
lark, lark 
larm, noise, alarm 
last, load, burden 
lastr, vice, das laster 
lasterfri, free of vice 
lasterhaft, full of vice 
latinish, latin 
laune, whim, humor 
lautr, genuine; lauter 
lauv, leaves, (trees) 
leed, lead, leiten 
leit light, easy; leicht 
leitmaal, lunchion 
lekr, delicate, fine 
lekerbit, delicacy 
lend, loin 

lenk, adjust, manage 
lenkbar, manageable 
lem, learn 
lerno, learner 
levand, living 
liebr, rather 
lift, lift, heben 
lift!, elevator 
liggam, corpse (dead ) 
livli, lively 
livhaft, vivid 
loes, loose, loosen 
loev, lion 


loon reward, lohn 
lord, heer 
luik, shut, close 
luikl, key, schluessel 
luur, spy, watch 
lyst, delight, pleasure 
magn, stomach 
mait, mate 
makt, power; macht 
main, paint 
mangl, defect, want 
mark, 24 c. o ger. money 
mashin, machine 
mashineri, machinery 
masregl, rule in mass 
masse, mass, quantity 
matros, common sailer 
meen, mean, intend 
meertal, majority 
meestr master 
meestershap, mastership 
meid, avoid, 
meil, mile 
melk, milk 
menge, quantity 
mengir, multiply 
menifalti, multitudinous 
menifold, manifold 
menimal, many times 
mensh, man or woman 
merkverdi, remarkable 
midmaal, dinner 
midn, center 
mindertal, minority 
misbruk, misuse 
miselv, myself 
mitliden, compassion 
mod, courage; muth 
modi, dourageous 
mogli, possible 
mogliheid, possibility 
mord, murder 
mordo, murderer 
muntr, cheerful happy 
munteru cheerfullness 
mustr, model 
muul, mouth, (animal) 
muur, stone wall 

myd, tired 
mydsam, tiresome 

mye, trouble, work 
myg, muskeeto 
myl, mill 

naald, needle 


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nagl. nail 

nakdeel, disadvantage 
nakdeelish, disadvantageous 
nakkomos, descendants 
neb, bird’s beak 
nederdraekti, degrading 
neid, envy, jealousy 
neig, incline, lean 
neiging, propensity 
nekst, next 
nest, nest 
nier, near 
nip, pinch 
niptang, pinchers 
niugier, curiosity 
niugirish, curious 
nuili, recently 
nood, need agony 
norge, norway 
norgish, norwegian 
norm, norm, patem 
normli, normal 
normshool, normal school 
oede, desert, desolate 
oedeleg, lay waste 
ofr, offer, bidding 
oft, often 
old, old; alt 

omdree, invert; umdrehen 
omgaa, circumvent 
omgang, intercourse 
omkom, perish 
omlooperi, running about 
opgave, task; aufgabe 
opmerksam, attentive 
openbar, reveal 
openbarli, openly 
oppas, take care of 
oppaso, watchman 
opvart, wait on 
opvarto, waiter, 
overales, above al things 
ovrig, what is over n above 
ovrigu, ruling power 
overmod, haughtiness 
overmodi, haughty 
overmaati, exceeding 
overse, superintend 
overtyg, convince 
pand, pawn 
papir, paper 
papst, pope 
pas, fit, suit 
pasir, to pass 


passand, fitting, suitable 
pasli, fitly 
passl? fit ling thing 
passu, passage 
pastor, pastor, minister 
pen, pen; feder 
penholdl, penholder 
penig, money; geld 
plank, plank, bret 
plant, plant; pflantzen 
platdeuch, low-german 
piel, arrow; pfeil 
pip, look, peep 
pleig, nurse; fflegen 
plet, spot, place 
plog, plow 
pluk, pluck, pick 
plum, plum; pflaum 
plundr, plunder 
predik, preach 
prediko, preacher 
priest, priest 
privat, private, 
puppetheim, doll’s home 
puppet, doll; puppe 
putse, scour, clean 
raad, advice; rath 
raake, revenge; rache 
rand, mnrgin, brink 
ras, rage, rasen 
rasand, raging, rasend 
raseri, rage, fury 
rash, quick, prompt 
rede, speech, oration 
rederish, oratorical 
redli, honest, upright 
rekn, count, cypher 
rekenkunst, arithmetic 
ren, run 
rieb, rub 
reif, ripe 

reik, kingdom; reich 
rich, rich opulent 
rein, pure, clean 
reisferdi, ready t travel 
ret, save from danger 
reto, savior, 
rib, rib; rippe 
ride, ride (horse back) 
rido, rider 

rideri, cavalry; reiterei 
riek, smell; nechen 
riese, giant 
riesehaft, gigantic 


teutonish. 


97 


riktr, judge! richter 
riktershap, judgeship 
ris, tear, rive 
roek, smoke; rauchen 
roev, rob; rauben 
roevo, robber 

rok, coat; rock 

rol, roll 
roos, rose 

ruut, route, course 
rygsikt, regard 
ryk, jerk, pull; ruck 
ryktbar, notorious 
rykte, reputation 
ryr, touch 
ryrand, touching 
ryst, prepare; ruesten 
rysting, equipage 
sadl, sadle; sattel 
salv, salve; salbe 
salt, salt; salz 
saug, suck, imbibe 
seldn, seldom, selten 
selv, self; selbst 
selvlivbeshrivl; autobiografi 
side, side; seite 
shadu, shadow; shatten 
sham; shame 
shau, view, sight 
shauspiel, theater 
sheef, obligue; schief 
sheid, part, divorce 
sheld, "scold; shelten 
shend, violate; schaenden 
shep, create; schoepfen 
shepand, creating 
shepo, creator; schoepfer 
shepsel, creature 
sher, shear; scheren 
sherl, scissors; schere 
shero; shearer; scherer 
sherm, guard; schirmen 
shik, dispatch; schicken 
skiksal, fate; schicksal 
shildr, depict; schildern 
shilderi, pictures, schilderei 
ship, ship, schiff 
shirt, shirt; shurz, hemd 
shoenu, beauty; schoenheit 
shooi; school, schule 
shoon, spare, schonen 
shoot shoot; schiessen 
shuil, conceal; verstecken 
shuvl, shovel; schaufel 


shyt, protect; schuetzen 
shrank, bar, (ier); schranke 
shraeg, oblique 
shu, shoe; schuh 
shruv, screw; schraube 
side, side, page, seite 
silvr, silver; silber 
sinkrekt, perpendicular 
slakt, slaughter, butcher 
sliet, wear out 
slim, bad; schlimm 
slot, castle; schloss 
slut, shut, close; schliessen 
smeis, smite, cast out 
smelt, melt! smelt 
smid, blacksmit 
smidsted, blacksmith shop 
smoek smoke 
smuk, handsom; schmuck 
snabl, bird’s bill 
snak, talk, prate 
snap, snatch; schnappen 
sne, snow; schnee 
sneid, cut; schneiden 
sneido, taylor; schneider 
snit, a cut; schnitt 
snur, cord, line; schnur 
som, some; einige 
somtids, sometimes 
sorgspiel, tragidy 
spad, spade 
spalt, split, collumn 

spar, spare 

spas, fun, sport; spass 
spen, kick, fuusstoss 
spend, spend 

spiel; play 
spil, spill 

split, split; spalten 
spor, track; spur 
spot; mock, jeer; spotten 
spros, sprout; sprossen 
stam, tribe, race 
stern, star; stern 
sterv, die; sterben 
stoev, dust; staub 
stond, moment, short time 
stool, stool, chair 
stoot, shock; stoss 
stram, stretched; stram 
strand, strand 
streik, strike; schlagen 
strid, conflict; streit 
stroem, stream; strom 


VortlistG 


9 § 

stuv, chamber; stube 

styk, piece; stueck 
styr, steer; steuerri 
Styrt, tumble; stuerzen 

styl, style; styl 

styt> support; stuetzen 
sun, Sun; sonne 
suppe* soup; suppe 
svaar, difficult; schwer 
sveig, keep silent 
svein, swine 
svel, swell 
sveig, swallow 
sver, swear; schwoeren 
sverge, Sweden 

home name is e basis, 
svergish, Swedish 
svim, swim 
sving, swing 
syn, scene 
synagog, synagogue 
tabel, table of figures 
tadl, blame, censure 
tadellos; blameles 
tadelhaft, faulty 
talg, tallow 
tapr, brave; tapfer 
tash, pocket; tasche 
tashur, pocket-watch 
taum, bridle, reins, zaum 
tee, tea 
tempi, temple 
tidgenoot, a contemporary 
tish, table 

tobedgaan, to-bed-going 
todring, intrude 
todringli, intrusive 
tofredn, satisfied, pacified 
toev, tarry, wait 
tolest, at last 
tolk, interpreter 
tohang, appendix 
trav, trot; traben 
tred, tread, tretten, tritt 
tren, separate, devide 
trek, pull; ziehen 
troest, console, trost 
trots, spite; trotz 
tru, true, wahr 
trunem, perceive 
truheid, truth; wahrheit 
tushengaa, intervene 
tveig, branch; zweig 
tvilling, twin; z willing 


tvorad, bicycle; zweirad 
tyg, toy stuff; zeug 
tyv, thief, dieb 
ufr, shore, 

undermin, undernine 
unfred, war, non-peace 
unfrend, enimy 
unting, a mean thing 
unrekt, unjust 
unrikti, incorrect 
untank, ungratefullness 
ur, watch, hour, first 
urfolk, aborigines 
urinvoono, first inhabitant 
urold, ancient; uralt 
ursaak, cause, reason 
urspring, origin 
utfoer, to export, perform 
utfoersel, export 
utgaa, exit, go out 
utkant, outr edge 
utryst, to equip 
utset, delay, postpone 
untukti, unchaste 
utvendi, exterior, outside 
vad, wade 
vadsted, wading place 
vael, elect, chose, vote 
vaelo, voter 
vaelrekt, right to vote 
vaag, venture; wagen 
vagnes, a venture 
vagon, wagon 
vak, awake 

vaksam, watchful, alert 
vakt, watch, take care of 
vand, wall 
van, mis, ill, craze 
vanform, deformity 
vanformi, deformed 
vanhop, despair 
vantroest, despondency 
vanviti, insane 
vansinni, insane 
vanglyk, misfortune 
vash, wash; waschen 
vat.r, water, wasser 
velfaru, wellfare; wohlfahrt 
velredand, oratorical 
velredandu, oratoricalness 
velsprekenu, eloquence 
velt, world 
veltal, universe 
verti, worthy 


teutonish. 


99 




verv, acquire, werben 
vesentli, essentially 
vest, west 
vestvards, westward 
vest, towards e west 
vee, woe, wee 
veek, week; woche 
vegvis, show e way 
vegvisl, guide-board 
vegviso, guide (person) 
verksam, active, industrious 
verksted, workshop 
verkint, working room 
veik, weak 
vein, wine 
veit, wheat; weizen 
vid, wide 
viet, white, weiss 


vikt weight; gewicht 
vikti, important 
virkli, really, real 
vin, win; gewinnen 
virt, host; wirt 
vis, manner; weise 
visu, wisdom; weisheit 
vood, wood; holz 
vool, wool; wolle 
vunder, wonder 
vyste, desert, wilderness 
vystleg, wastelay 
zart, tender, loving 
zerriso, torn asunder 
zier, orament 
zie; pull, tug 
zins, interest (money) 
zvek, purpose 


molee’on vandrings 

autobiograHe bei elias molee. 



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(elias molee’on birtplas). 


luOFC. 


100 autobiografie. 


50 ferkortels (abbreviations). 


algm, algemeen 

bfr, befor 

bhg, behag 

bsp, beispiel 

btr, betr 

bst, best 

d, du (the n.) 

dn, dan, den 

ds, dis 

dse, diese (pi.) 

dt, dat 

f> fyr 

fdt, fyrdat 

f-m, formiddag 

fr, fru (madam) 

grt, groat 

h, hav 

hd, had 

hr, heer (sir, mr. 

kn, kan 

km, kom 

m, mi 

mk, mak 

mn, man 

mndr, mindr 

mnst, minst 

mr, meer 

ms, mus 

mst, meest 

mt, mit 

n, en (and) 

nsf , n so fort 

nk, nak 

n-m, nk middag 

nt, nit 

rg, ryg (back) 

sg, sig 

shl, shal, 

sm, som 

sn, sin (sein) 

t, to, (zu) 

tng, ting 

tsmn, tosamen 

vb, veib 

vl, vil 

vlk, vilk 

vrde, vorde 

vrdt, vardt 

vt, vat 

vn, van, ven 



a) — forrede. 

m (mi) is beina bang, vn m begin t shriv om min 
eign vandrings. dar is mr (meer) gefar af saging 
smtng (somting) toorish, vn mn (man) shriv om sg 
selv, dan vn mn shriv om andr persons, men m ms 
dok vaag et, vegn een ursaak; namli, dar is meni 
tngs in min vandrings, vlk h hd een grt influs an ds 
fereensprak. min selvlivbeshrivl (autobiografie) vl; 
darfyr, ferklar meni dunkl punkts, n ok openbar een 
gevis heimli hop. 

m kn ok sag in d (du, the, n.) begin, dt m h so 
grt glaub an d ekonomish kulturmakt af ferkortels, dt 
m kn nt viderstand d neiging af anvending at mnst 
50 af de, in dis book. vn mn shriv een briv, odr 
een styk in di tidings, is et bst t bookstafir di vorts 
in ful, men in een book, vor mn h raum t forset di 
ferkortels, vlk jede bube odr maedn kn leit lern, 
hop mi dt di 50 ferkortels vl imr is brukn als een fest 
deel af ds sprak in al books in d tokom. 


teutonish. 


101 


dar is een andr tng, vlk m kn nt viderstand, n 
dt is t ferkort een venig al nams af stads, staats n 
landstreks, vlk h mr dan 3 silbs; als “amerika’’ t 
amrika , “minnesota” t minsota, “missisippi” t misi- 
pi , ‘ united states of north amerika’’ t usona , “san 
francisco” t sanfrisko , “kristiania” t krishana , nsf. 
et is een plag f leut, hu lev dar, t is dvingn jede dag 
t shriv n sprek sodan lang nams. ekonomie is vert 
so fiel in sprak, als in industrie. teutonish velfaru 
(welfare) is min hoegste ideal, vi lev in een sam- 
land tid. 


b) — birtu n fa mi lie. 

m seen eena (first, erst) d likt af ds velt een 
kold vintri morgn an d 3a dag af eenam (january), 
1845, omtrent 20 meils (30 kilometrs) fan milvaukee 
stad, viskonsin staat, nordamrika. min elters voon- 
en in een stokhuus, vlk fadr, mt een par nabors, hd 
bauen. vi° eena huus var 26 foots lang, 16 breed n 
12 foots hoeg t d begin af d dak. vi hd 2 kamrs 
untn n 3 obn. 

vi hd 120 akrs (50 hektairs) af good land, vi 
var neidr arm, neidr rich, men hd genog f een glykli 
midelstand, vlk robinson kruso h priesen so hoeg. 

min fadr, john evenson molee, vart birtn 1816 in 
sydli norge (norway) in de bezirk af “tin’’, an sn 
fadr’on farm, nier d berymen gausta gehil (fjeld), n 
nier d grootarti rjukan fos (waterfall), hi gaan to 
amrika mt d “luraas folge” in 1839. hi kmn t mil- 
vaukee stad, vor hi arbeidn 4 jaars f di amrikanos. 
hi lernen in ds vis seer good english. dar var so 
meni indianos in d forest, nier milvaukee, vor hi ar- 
beidn, dt hi lernen ok d indianish sprak. 

min modr, huo maedn nam var anna jakebsdat- 
ter einung, kmn t amrika fan d sami kant af norge 
als fadr in 1843, n vrdt heiraadn hier in 1844. liebi 


102 


autobiografie. 


modr var oft trauri, fdt shio familie ferlatn norge. 
de hd een god oparbeidn farm dar mt dienos n die- 
nas, t help rikt deo landgut (estate) n fervalt deo 
gasthuus f fremd reisos. 

dar kmn reisos darhen fan england, deuchland, 
holland, danmark n sverge, n ferblivn dar een venig 
dags odr veeks in mofadr’on gasthuus, f t bese d 
rjukanfos. mofadr hd lernen een venig english, 
deuch n hollandish vorts, so dt hi kun sprek mt di 
reisos om di mst absolut noodvendi tngs. 

al min forfars, rat nur een utneml h var birtn 
in norge. min urgrootfadr an d moderside kmn t 
norge f een hamburgi handelhuus, f t hoop pelsverk. 
nk min urgrootfadr johan einung, hd var in norge 2 
jaars, n lernen vio sprak, leikn hi d land n folk so 
good, dt hi heiraadn sg mt een farmr’on dotr. 

c) — naboru, — d tutitu sprak . 

vio naboru, nier milwaukee, bestandn af een seer 
miksn befolking, so dt vi hd een niu amrikanish 
sprakferviring. vio mst nier nabor an d nord var 
een englando, hr adams; an d ostside levn do vide be- 
kant sterkhans, een norgish riese, hr hans tveito; an 
d syd fan vi voonen een hollando n hio veif; n an d 
vest fan vi, var een platdeuch familie, bei nam Schu- 
macher fan meklemburg, nier rostock, deuchland. 

ak vee! et var een shrekli sprakfervir. mn 
kan denk sg, et ms h var slim, t lev in een sodan na- 
boru, fern fan een stad in d forest, vor mn kun seldn 
find een tolk (interpretor). fadr kun tolkir tushn 
modr n fr adams, f hi hd lernen english n indianish, 
durand di 4 jaars dat hi arbeidn nier milvaukee. hi 
kun ok tolkir tushn di indianos, norgos n amrikanos, 
men hi kun nt ferstand deuch odr hollandish. hi pro- 
evn etli (several) mals t lern deuch, men hi findn so 
fiel svaaru in erinering di unregli n unnaturli deuch 


teutonish. 


103 


biegings; der, die , das , des, dew, dera, samt d vunder- 
bar deuch dativ accusativ, subjuntiv, n di fervirand 
deuch umlauts, dt hi opgivn deuch. 

al di nabors hd niuli kmn fan europa, n hd nt hd 
tid odr gelegenu t lern een fremd sprak, utn fadr. 

vi kinds levn een seer frie n undvingn liv. vi 
vandern tosamn in d forest nir vio elters’on huuses 
n farms, dar var at dt tid nok fiel frie regiringland 
intushn. d forest var ful af al arts beers; als, erd- 
beers, brombeers n stikelbeers, samt veindruivs n 
plums, dar var ok een menge af noets; als, hassel- 
noets, kastanis, hikorinoets n di good valnoets. 

at ds tid hd vi een ungeheur grt svaaru mt di 3 
fershili spraks — norgish — danish, deuch n english. 
vi kinds kun nt ferstand eenandr eni btr, dan vio eltrs. 
vi var al pioniers, odr niusetlos, hu hd nt hd tid t 
lern een fremd tung. di adams kinds, henry n mary, 
sprekn english; di schumacher kinds, otto n emma, 
sprekn platdeuch. n ditveito kinds, tomas, jakob n 
anna, samt min brodr halvor, min sistr anna n mi 
sprekn platnorgish (landsmaal). hier kn mn sag var 
een sprakbabl. et is dok vunderbar, ho snel kinds 
lern t ferstand eenandr. dar is in english, deuch 
n danish-norgish meni vorts aleik. ds helpn vi fiel. 
nu, veil vi spieln, nplukn beers, plums n noets tsmn, 
mkn vi een niu fereensprak f viselvs unbevust, odr 
at minst unafsiktli; dt is, utom eni plan odr evn een 
nam f vio sprak; men fadr saed eenmal tofali, als hi 
hoern vi sprekn tsmn, ,,u h een vunderbar tutitu 
sprak<<. vi hoern dn d vort „tutituu n annemen et 
als d nam af vio fereensprak. 

fadr n modr saed oft t eenandr, „et es slim, dt 
english , deuch n skandinavish , so nier aleik , h nt vrdt 
fereenen bei di regirings lang sedertu. vn vi kinds 
sprekn tsmn, vrdt meni tngs saed, vlk vi ferstandn 
nt, n dn mkn vi signals mt di haends, arms n fingrs. 


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\ vio kompromis fereensprak, entstandn dar- 
door, dt vi hoern klein otto n emma Schumacher saed 
een par vorts in platdeuch, vlk vi ferstandn fan d 
samhang n di omstands; een andr mal saed klein 
henry odr mary adams een par vorts in english, vlk 
vi ferstandn fan d samhang n di omgivls (environ- 
ments), een andr dag saed klein tomas, jakob n anna 
tveito, odr m etli vorts, vlk di schun^acher n adams’on 
kinds begripn. 

di vorts, vlk vi hoern, vederhaln (repeated) vi 
lyd f t erinr de. it is naturli f jung kinds t veder- 
hal vt de hoer, n ds helpn vi fiel t erinr vt var saed. 

een shoen dag in 1852, vlk m kn good erinr, gaan 
vi kinds tsmn in d forest, f t pluk plums in vio ha- 
endkorbs. nk vi hd plukn vio korbs halvful, gaan 
tomas tveito forut n lindn een niu plas, vor dar var 
mr plums, n dn roopn hi mt een lyd stem, ”kom 
her te me, kom her te me“, (come here to me; 
deuch, komm hierher zu mir). vegn d fershil in ut- 
sprek n betoning, ferstandn di deuch n english kinds 
hi nt in d begin, men m ferstandn hi good, als hi 
sprekn vio platnorgish dialekt. m loopn dn foran, n 
svingn min arms in d luft n gegn min brost, n roopn 
di andr kinds, kom her te me, kom her te me. darnak 
ferstandn di andr kinds, vt dse vorts meenen fan d 
samhang n di omstands, grad als de hd lernen d be- 
dyding af di vorts in deo eign moderspraks. 

d obn saedet (gesagte) is een bsp af ho tutitu , 
vio kindish fereensprak, enstandm “me, te , her , 
kom ’ var een vortsamling fan tomas tveito, vlk al 
brukn darnak. een andr dag saed emma Schu- 
macher, venand ovr smtng, ‘ ‘me vil gaa heim te mo- 
der /’ vi andr kinds ferstandn dt, n in ds vis, krign 
vi tofali een niu vortsamling — “modr, heim , gaa , vii\ 
in dis vis vaksn tutitu fan dag t dag, fan veek t veek, 
n fan jaar t jaar, until vi hd een fuldstandi sprak f 


teutonish. 


105 


al jene tngs n idees, vlk, vi ferstandn in vio eign 
betrefi modertungs — norgish, deuch n english. 
alles vt vi veetn om in vio eign spraks, dragen vi 
intu tutitu. 

d sats, il Jcom her te me’’, (km hier t m), is d eena 
(first) sats n vorts, dt m kn erinr. m betrakt, 
dssats als geshiktli, fdt et var d begin af “tutitu”, 
vio kindish fereensprak. ja, m kn truli sag., “ Jcom 
her te me”, var ok d anfang af ds teutonish. om dar 
hd nt var een forloopi “tutitu” in min vandrings door 
d forest nier milvaukee, kun m nt mr spaet h denkn 
om teutonish, een mr grootarti sprakfereen, at dt tid 
1852 bfr m hd hoern een eensig vort om volapyk, 
esperanto, pasilingua, interpreter, spelin lingua, vis- 
ona, clarison, anglofranca. bleu lang. (bolaks), idiom 
neutral, mundelingua n panroman, odr bfr m hd 
studirn norgish, deuch, english, hollandish, fransi 
odr griekish n latinish. utom tutitu in fry jungu 
kun m unmogli h denkn om teutonish in dekora ko- 
leg. min interesse f sodan niu fereensprak als teu- 
tonish, kun nt h vrdt sterk genog, t dving m t arbeid 
f et min ganz liv, om tutitu hd nt vaksn into min erfa- 
rinngs n into min seel, so fry als et verkli don, fan 
min 5a t min 10a jaar af altr. 

nk vi kinds hd var tsmn in ds vis 2 jaars, hd vi 
entvikeln n lernen vio tutitu fereensprak so fulstan- 
di, dt vi kun dien als tolks (interpreters) tushn vio 
fershili sprekand elters. vi kinds var stolt af dis, 
dt vi hd virkli mkn een international sprak. vn hr, 
odr fr schumacher vul borg odr koop smtng fan min 
elters, hu ferstandn nt deuch, muste hr odr fr schu- 
macher nem mt sg klein otto odr emma t dien als 
tolks. fr schumacher saed t emma in platdeuch, vt 
shi venshn fan modr; emma saed et t m in tutitu, 
n m saed et t modr in platnorgish (landsmaal). d 
antvort muste gaa rg d sami veg, vn modr vul gaa 


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t fr adams, da englanda, muste m odr min sistr anna 
gaa mt shi, n sag vt shi venshn t klein henry odr 
mary adams in tutitu, n de saed et vedr in english t 
fr. adams. tomas, jakob odr anna tveito muste 
tolkir f sn elters. 

vn m vrdt mr old, utfindn m dt english n turkish 
is ok sodan miksn spraks. sodan sprakmiksing 
forkom, jede dag in amrika. so meni english vorts 
is miksn into deuch, dano-norgish, hollandish n sver- 
gish spraks, dt een mn odr vb, komand grad fan eu- 
ropa, kn oft nt ferstand vt is saed. om di teutons 
hd een algm n gemeensam fereensprak, vul et vrde 
mr leit t oprekthold rein n unferfalshn deo sprak ovr 
d ganz erdbal. et vul ok help di kirks seer fiel. dar 
is heufi 10 t 12 deuchos, 7 t 8 norgos n svergos in 
een naboru mt d sami religion. om de hd d sami 
sprak, kun de bau een kirk tsmn, men vn de is sonder* 
splitn bei meni fershili spraks, kn kein af de ernaer 
een pastor, n bau een, kirk, t oprekthold d religion 
n d sprak in fremd londs. 

“ chinook” is een seer lerrich paralel t tutitu. d 
rich “hudson bay company ” in kanada hd so fiel 
svaarus mt di meni ferrshili indianish stamspraks, 
dt et krign een befeel 100 jaar sedart fan london, 
england, t mak een miksn kompromis indianish sprak, 
n leer et t di jung indianos, vegn bekvemliheid in 
handl. ds h gelingn so good, dt ds afsiktli mkn 
miksn kompromis sprak, is nu sprekn ovr ganz ka s 
nada, bei di indianos. 

d) — in d jaar 1855, vn m var 10 jaars old, seln 
min elters sn farm, n hentrekn t blumaunds, dane 
kaunti, viskonsin, 150 meils mr fern vest, odr 20 
meils fan madison, d hovdstad. hier koopn min 
elters een farm n plantn meni frukttrees dar. hier 
gaan m vedr t english n norgish shools. nk lm var 


teutonish. 


107 


konfirmirn in d lutherish kirk, krign m erlaub fan 
min eltrs t arbeid 2 jaars f een deuch koopman, f t 
lern hoegdeuch. hio nam var anton kellermann. 
hi hd een stor (laden) in d land, vor et var een ge- 
miksn befolking af deuchos, englandos n skandi- 
navos. m krign darfyr, hoegr loon, dan gevoonli f 
een jung n unerfarn bube, fdt m kun sprek english, 
dano-norgish n svedish, n bald hd m ok bemeestern d 
hoegdeuch, at mnst, so dt mi kun handl mt deuch 
niukomos. m lernen mst deuch fan hr- keller- 
mann’on dotr, katrina, hu var af d sami altr als mi. 
shi var een seer gemytli n keush maeden, men vi 
givn eenandr dok frievilli meni kyses. om m hd 
var so lang mt hr kellerman, als hi venshn, so hd 
gevis katrina vrdt min veif, f vi liebn eenandr oprik- 
ti, men vi var dn t jung, n m muste vekgaa t shool. 

e) — in 1863 sendn min elters m t d norgish lu- 
therish evangelish kolleg in dekora in nordostli iova 
staat, omtrent 250 meils nordvest fan blumaunds. 
dekora kolleg var grundn bei di meni norgish ge- 
meentes in viskonsin, ilinoi, iova, minsota, dakota n 
andr staats in usona. et is hovdsaakli inriktn t 
erzie (educate) pastos, men ok andr jung mns gaa 
dar, f t krig een good kristli erzieung. 

do forman var do tykti prof. dr. laur. larsen, 
under huo fervalting d kolleg mkn grt fortshrits. et 
var fervaltn ganz an europaish vis, mst nk norgish n 
deuch prinsips. di professos var al norgos n deuch- 
os, odr hd studirn in d deuch anstalt in santluis, mi- 
suri. prof. dr. schmidt var een deucho, men hi kun 
dok underrikt n predik in norgish. prof, jakobsen, 
min fetro var dok mst sprakgevalti. hi kun predik 
in norgish, english, deuch, griekish n latinish. 

m kmn t ds kolleg an d eena dag af niam (sept.) 
1863, n beginen straks t studir4 spraks d eena jaar; 
namli, norgish, english, deuch n latin. men latin 


108 inolee*bn VandringS. 

haatn m fan d eena mal dat m seen et, vegh eto UHi*£ a 
gliheid n eto ungeheur meni utnemls (exceptions), 
m kun iit begrip, vat nyt latin kun h. di old grie- 
kos, di profets n apostls studirn nt latin. et is nur 
ein katolish sprak, vlk shul nt plag lntherish stu- 
dents. m fragn eenmal vio president, prof. dr. laur 
larsen, varom hi kun nt lat vi studir d grt, velklin- 
gand, levand n vaksand Spanish sprak, anstat d dod 
n svaar latin. “om vi’’ saedmi, “studir Spanish 
kn vi dok lern di latinish roots, f t ferstand english, 
n di veetenshapli vorts in norgish n deuch, n ok 
darto lern een levand sprak mt een grt literatur n 
handl, veil latin help vi in kein betreking. f t fer- 
stand veetenshapli vorts in medisin n kunst, kn vi 
studir besondr fak-leksikons, so fern als vi behoev.” 
do president lafn blot atm, n saed, “u is t jung t 
ferstand d grt nyt dar is in latin”. 

f) — nk 2 jaars in ‘‘dekora kolleg’’, vandern m t 
d english hoegshool in lakros, viskonsin, ovr 100 
meils nordost fan dekora, f t vrde mr fuldkomen in 
d english sprak. lakros lig an d link ufr af d grt 
veltberymen misipiflus. nk een jaar studie in d 
lakros hoegshool f t erzie shoolleeros n leeras, van- 
dern m t springgrov, huston kaunti in sydostli min- 
sota staat, omtrent 30 meils vest. m krign een ser- 
tifikat af d kaunti superintendo, t hold shool. 

at springgrov hd m d overmaati grt fergnygan 
(enjoyment, pleasure) t tref min mosistr, fr aslaug 
tveito, hio huusband, hr hans tveito, samt min fetros, 
tomas n jakob n min fetra anna tveito. de hd flytn 
(moved) fan nier milvaukee t springgrov. ja, nu 
trefn m min old sprakmakos af,,tutitu”, vio kindish 
fereensprak, mkn fan deuch, norgish n english vorts, 
n vlk m h bfr ervaenen. nk vi hd sprekn tsmn ovr 
2 dags in tutitu n opfrishn meni old erinerings, 
denkn m mt livhaftiheid an vt fadr n moder oft 


teutonish. 


109 


Saed, u et.is slim, dt english, deuch n 
sk a n din avish, so nier aleik, h nb vrdt 
fereenen bei di regirings lang se- 
der t.” 

g) — in 1867. nk m hd holdn english n norgish 
shools 2 jaars n givn meni privat lesons in deuch t 
een halv duzin englandos, hd m ferdienen, so fiel 
peng (money), dt m kun betal min shuld n hd genog 
peng ovrig, vandern m rg t viskonsin t d il al- 
bion akademie at ds akademie trefn m vedr 
min fori shoolkamerad, hr rasmus b. anderson, hu 
hd nu vrdt professo hier. hi vrdt mr spaet utnamen 
Qei president Cleveland als gesanto t d hof af dan- 
mark. albion akademie h ok d eer af having erzien 
(educated) hio eero (honor), do eerverti knute nel- 
son, eks governo af minsota, n nu usonaish (united 
statesian) senato (senator). eerverti (honorable) 
knute nelson graduirn fan ds akademie, d jaar bfr m 
ankomn dar. m studirn at ds akademie 2 jaars n 
graduirn mt d titl, “ ph . vlk bedyd philosophiae 
baccalaureus.” m var seer stolt af min titl dn. een- 
mal in d akademie, vrdt vio professo in sykologie sik, 
so dt m muste nem hio stel f mr dan een monat. 
di studiros kaln m, darfyr, professo, n meni leut h 
kaln mi so sedert’ nk usonaish gebruk (custom), men 
m leik bst d eenfak titl “heer“. als “hr molee”, 
anstat, “prof, molee’’. et is dok t m, gleikgylti, 
om d leut sag ‘‘heer”, odr “professo”. 

nk m var ferdi at albion akademie, reisn m t 
madison, viskonsin n studirn jurisprudens een kort 
tid mt eerverti knute nelson, men m muste gaa vek f 
t hold shool, t ferdien peng, als fadr shrivn t m dt 
hi kun nt help m eni mr, dn h hd don. hi saed, 
‘‘een jung mn, 6 foots n 2 daums hoeg, gesund n 
sterk, shul help sg selv, om noodvendi”. 

h) — in 1868 vandern m fan madison, viskonsin, 


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molee’on vandrings 


vedr t springgrov, minsota staat, beina 300 meils 
nordvest, vor m hd fervantos n meni bekantos. m 
leikn t gaa t springgrov, fdt tomas, jakob n anna 
tveito, min fetros, voonen dar, mt hu m kun sprek 
tutitu. m krign bald een shoolpost in d dorp, 
als m hd studirn een lit lq (law), vrdt m vaeln bei 
folkafsteming t is fredrikto (justice of the peace), 
dar var dok mr eer dan ferdienu, odr penggevin in 
ds amt. m entsheidn tshn een venig stridand per- 
sons, men min grootest fergnyg in ds amt var t fyg 
ijoin) huusbands n veifs tsmn in d heilig ektstand 
(matrimony), civil heiraadan is erlaubn in usona. 
di meestos gaan dok t d pasto, men nu n dn kmn 
heiraadandos (marrying ones) t m als rikto. 

in 1869 findn m selv een vb t is min veif . nk m 
hd heiraadn, koopn m een klein farm nier d dorp af 
springgrov f een heim f min veif n m. m findn bald 
ut dt m var nt eignirn odr bestemen f t is een farmo 
odr gardno, fdt m hd t grt lust t studir om spraks. 
farmstudie is utom tveifl d mst nytli ill algm. men 
andr studiros is ok nytli f een hoeg folkibildung. m 
heirn min veifibroder t help min veif t fervalt min 
farm, veil m holdn shool in d dorp, odr nt fern fan 
vio heim. 

in 1874 vrdt m ervaeln (elected) bei folkafstem- 
ing t is kaunti kasiro (county treasnrer), mt een 
jaarli gehalt af 1250 dolrs (5000 marks). m hd ok 
een mithelpo, so dt m krign tamli fiel tid ovrig t stu- 
dir an min liebi teutonish brodr spraks, als, english, 
deuch, dano-norgish, svergish, samt som fransi, 
Spanish, rusish, turkish n kinaish. nk m var er- 
vaeln kauntikasiro, flytn vi fan springgrov t kale- 
don (caledonia), 10 meils ost n koopn een klein 6 
kamri huus mt een grt garden frukttrees. als min 
veif’on familie, velo, var mr bekant dan m, haln di 
leut mi den, “elias velo”. m lat dt gaa, n nemen 


teutonish. 


Ill 


selv d nam “velo’’, men in 1880 ferliern m min veif 
n min eensig kind, n dn nemen m rg min old eerli 
ervn fadernam “molee”. kaunti beamtos (official) 
vael’is in minsota nur f 2 jaars, n dn ms de veder- 
vael’is, odr gaa ut af d amt, n een andr kandidat 
kom in. 

2 jaars nk m var eena vaeln, dreen (turned) d 
folksteming sg om, n d toa (second) parti vinen. 
m muste deel d shiksal af min parti, n ferlier min 
amt mt min parti, et mk kein fershil, veedr di 
amtos is good odr slekt, so sterk is d vild n unkri- 
tish folkistem. de veet nt vt de vl, odr vt is bst odr 
rekt. vi behoev mr fernufti utnemls bei d staat- 
holdo, als in kanada n europa. 

i) — nk m hd ferliern min amt, vegn d partivind, 
vlk hd dreen sg om, ferliern m bald darnak min veif 
n min einsig kind. m hd darfyr nt mr lust t voon 
in ds gegend, men seln min farm in springgrov, 10 
meils vest fan kaledon, samt min huus in kaledon n 
vandern t norddakota, omtrent 300 meils mr fern 
nordvest. hier koopn m een farm, vlk m paktn ut 
an shaers, n anfangn vedr t hold shool. di shool- 
leeros n leeras in europa, vl mogshee, fervundr sg, 
ho een mn kn gaa fan een sted t d andr n imr find 
ledig, stelings als leero. d samhang is ds, utn 
(except) in di hoegshools, kollegs, akademies n uni- 
versitats, is dar kein feest leerstand in usona. jede 
velerzien mn odr vb kn hold folki shool, ven hi krig 
een sertiflkat dt hi odr shi h henreikand erzieung. 
leero n leeras is nur heirn f een termin af 3 t 8 mo- 
nats, den ms de vedervael’is, odr een andr kandi- 
dat nem d shoolpost, darfyr is et imr ledig shool- 
postes. m glaub et vul is betr t h een fest leer- 
stand als in europa, so dt een leero kun heiraad sg, 
om hi vul, n h een fest heim. 

hier in norddakota staat, nier davenport, trefn 


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molee'on vandrings. 


m min brodr halvor, hu hd ok flytn hier. m hd 
veder d grt freud t sprek mt hi in vio old kindish 
fereensprak t u t i t u, vlk vi hd mkn nier milvaukee 
mt otto n emma schumacher, henry n mary adams n 
mt tomas, jakob n anna tveito. hier hd m ok d 
ungeheur fergnyg t eena hoer om “volapy k”. m 
shrivn straks t nujork f volapyk, vlk m krign fan 
“e. steiger n gesselshap’’. mr spaet teln min nujork 
korrespondent m om andr sprakplans: als “espe- 
ranto, lingua, interpreter, kosmos, pasilingua, spelin, 
anglo-franca’’, samt 3 amrikaish plans, “alvato, vi- 
sona n min frend, g. w- wishard’on “ the philosophical 
ivorld language ” et freudn m seer, dt ok andr mns 
vul arbeid f een good, grt veltsprak. 

j) — nk 5 jaars ferbliv in norddakota, seln m ut 
alles in 1886 n vandrn t bristol dorp in day kaunti, 
syddakota staat, omtrent 100 meils sydvest. hier 
koopn m vedr een farm t pakt ut an shaers. m 
holdn vedr shool f een kort tid. at bristol koopn m 
d english lokal blad avis, kaln “ the bristol indepen- 
dent , een blad mt tushn 500 1 550 abonents, n een 
good liste af standi anzeigos (advertisers), m hd nu 
een avis selv, so dt m kun sag beina vt m denkn. 

mi hd 2 unglyks in syddakota. 1893 in titoam 
(dec.) var m in een grt n kold vindstorm, so dt min 
rekt foot vrdt s hard friesn dt m var sik d ganz vintr 
n muste h opvartos dag n nat n betal hoeg heilistrek- 
ning. min paste denkn dt m vul sterv, n givn m d 
heilig sakrament t bereed min seel f d himl. 

d 2a unglyk var dt een landstyk, vlk m hd 
nemen fan d regiring als heimsted, undr d betingl 
dt m shul lev in gevis tid an d land n mk gevis fer- 
betrings. een mn, jake engler, trekn min rekt in 
tveifl. vi hd een geriktli proces darovr, vlk dutn 
mr als 4 jaars, n kostn beid af vi, mr dan d land var 
Vert. vi var beid t stolt f t kom t een utgleik (com- 


teutonish. 


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promise) mang viselvs. vi ferlirn beid d land. een 
3a person krign d land. 

a — o) — nak 9 jaars in syddakota, seln m min 
land n avis n vandern t minaplis, minsota, vor m 
voonen een vntr. in 1895 vandern m t d grt velt- 
stad shikago. hier dienen m d ilinoi central eirn- 
baan als landagent, f t reis door di staats, viskonsin, 
minsota, iova n illinoi, f t krig leut t go t di sydli 
staats t koop land n setl sg nedr dar. nk m hd 
bringn meni families n landkoopos t di sydli staats, 
reisn m door di staats kentuki, tenese, albaraa, jor- 
gia, florida, lusana, texas, arkansas, misipi n misuri. 
m leikn nt so fiel eirnbaani reiseri, fdt m muste fer- 
saum min liebi ideal, “d teutonish fereen- 
sprak.” m vul liebr ferdien mndr peng, n arbeid 
f een shoen menshli ideal. ' m gaan rg fan santluis 
t shekago, n teln d illinoi central eirnbaan gesseh 
shap, dt m vul nt is landagent mr lang. di beamtos 
bydn (offered) m hoegr loon, men m vul nt annem 
et. 

an min reis fan santluis t shekago in d eirnbaan- 
tog, seen m een seer vunderbar n een eigendonfii syn 
(scene). m seen 2 doof n stum persons, modr n 
dotr, sprekn tsmn in d eirnbaantog foran m over 3 
aurs mt d 2 haendi fingersprak. deo fingers gaan 
op n nedr, t d rekt n d link seer snel, mi kun nt 
begrip een eensig signal, men di doof n stum fer- 
standn et leit, n lafn menimal hertli ovr vt de ferteln 
eenandr. m denkn dn om, “ho bekvem et vul is 
f alio, om vi hd een 100 signals lernen in di shools, 
vlk vi kun bruk in vindi vetr, odr larmand fabriks, 
odr t signalir t eenandr ovr d straat, odr f eld, vor et 
is t fern t hoer d menshli stem.” als m h shrivn mr 
om ds idee in min book “teutonish” (fan vashing- 
ton), vlk kn find’is in meni af di grootest universi- 
tats, :vhm nt sag mr om een veltsignal- sprak. 


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a — a) — m voonen 2 vintrs in shikago n latn 
dryk 3 af min books fan typs in klein oplags (editi- 
ons). als jene books is nn ut af d handl, n hd seer 
meni feils, vl m nt besvaar di lesos bei giving een 
berikt af de mi gaan in 1897 t minsota, vor m 
voonen een jaar bei min sistr fr. anna holm n hio 
good huusband, een dano, bei nam mads nielsen 
holm, nier “stuartvil”, olmsted kaunti, minsota. 
in 1898 vandern m vedr, leik een eensamfogl t “lake 
mils” in vinbago kaunti, iova, een 100 meils sydvest. 
hier koopn mi een klein farm, vlk m paktn ut, n 
voonen mt di ferpaktos, n helpn di leut, vn de hd fiel 
t do, als in heuing, harvest n treshing. d ovrig tid 
studirn m teutonish n shrivn in di english n norgish 
avises. 

a — b) — nk 2 jaars voonhaft in iova staat, seln 
m min farm n vandern vedr an een lang, lang reise 
af beina 2,000 meils fan nordostli iova t d fern af 
staat vashington an d stilmeer (pacific) kyst in d 
nordvestli ek af usona. m leik t kal ‘ ‘united states 
of north amrika” bei d forkortn nam af “usona”; 
fdt et 1yd nt rekt t h so lang een nam f een eensig 
land. t kal d invoonos ‘ ‘amrikanos” is grad als om 
mn shul kal di deuchos “europanos”. di leut in 
kanada, meksiko n brasil, is ok “a m r i k a n o s”. 
“usona” is een seer vellydand nam, n mn kn bild 
beivorts darfan, grad so leit als fan “amrika”, als 
usonaishi “amrikanish” (adj.), usonano f “amrikano”. 
odr mr rikti, “unitedstatesian.” 

m kmn t lakros in vitman kaunti, vashington 
staat in triam (march) 1900 n koopn 480 aikrs land 
syd fan lakros in sektion 11. m seln ds nk 3 mo- 
nats n koopn “sektion 1 - 14 - 39”, 640 aikrs f 3 dalrs 
d aikr fan d nortern pacific eirnbaan. dar is om- 
trent 2 n een halv aikrs in een kektair. m var nu 
in grt shuld n d eensig (only) norgo in du gegend f 


teutonish. 


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hi hd 2 dienos 
dar var tomals 
vi 4 mans muste 
m fegn d floor, 


beina 2 jaars. m voon d mst mt hr frank poschner 
fan baiern, deuchland, hu var een old unheiraadno. 
hi hd fiel land n een 100 styk fies. 
men dar var kein vb in vio huus. 
mr mns dan vbs in vio nu gegend. 
kok, bak n hold d huus rein selv. 
mkn di beds, splitn d brenvood n dragn in vatr f 
min kost. jede muste vash sn eign kleeds, men vi 
var nt imr so opputsn als vi shul. dar var 2 deuch 
familis nierbei. hr beck n familie voonen een halv 
meil vest, n hr schreck n familie voonen een halv 
meil ost fan vi. min land var een meil vest, men et 
var vild treelos (prairie) land, vlk muste bebau’is n 
oparbeid’is, bfr mn kun lev dar. di nabors besoekn 
eenandr oft. hr poschner hd een piano, een fedl 
n een singtyg (graphophone) in sn huus. di nabors 
kmn oft t vi n dn sprekn vi imr deuch n singn deuch 
lieds. m hd fiel tid ovrig hier, n dn studirn m an 
teutonish, n shrivn in di avises. 

“nu,’' denkn m, “ms m do somting tselmin 
land, kom ut af shuld n ferdien som peng bei d land- 
handl. m kun nt lev af teutonish, vlk var imr blot 
een tid n peng fersvend t m. di venig mns hier hd 
al d land dt de kun benyt, odr betal f”. m denkn dn 
om t grund een norgish koloni. m shrivn in di nor- 
gish avises: als, du skandinaven 27a af toam (feb.) 
1901 in shikago, n at andr tids in amrika in madison, 
viskonsin, samt t d dekora posten in dekora, iova, om 
ho good n bilig land vi hd hier. mitin een jaar hd 
m grundn een norgish koloni, tushn di eirnbaan stan- 
dorts, lakros n hay. een norgish kirk vrdt bald 
bauen. di nam af d eena ansetlos ms mi giv hier; 
namli, n. matson, n. o. haugan, john hoist, peder 
vigen, jorgen vigen, jens vigen, john karlson, r. j. 
solibakken, k. knutson, n meni, meni andros vlk m 
kn nt erinr. al hd grt familis n peng. karlson hd 


il6 inoleeW vandrings. 

11 kinds. dar var ok 3 maedens fan 20 t 25 jaars 
hu kmn fan viskonsin, vegn mn shriveri in di avises; 
namli, emma n hanna bergseth samt anna hansen. 
de nemen jede 160 aikrs frie regiringland 3, odr 4 
meils vest fan “hay’’. m h nt raum hier t shriv 
mr om “d norgish lakros n hay koloni in 
vashington staat. m hop dok dt jeman dar 
vl shriv een geshikte af et, bfr di old ansetlos sterv 
vek, n fiel intresant urkunde om di grt besvaarliheids 
af di old baanbrekos, is ferlirn. 

m se rg t ds koloni mt een hertli lieb, fdt et var 
nt nur een good koloni af good leut, men et helpn 
m forvards mt min teutonish fereensprak. m kmn 
dar aleen mt blot $3,000, nk 3 jaars, gan m darfan 
mt 10,000 dalrs, vlk m hd ferdienen bei kooping land 
ungeheur bilig n seln at een hoegr pries. om m hd 
holdn min land 2 jaars mr lang, kun m h ferdien 
30,000 dalrs, men m var t begeerli t gaa t dstad tako- 
ma, so dt m seln m land t fry n t bilig. dar var so 
fiel anloop nk land at dt tid, dt een usonano (united 
statesian) mkn 100,000 dalrs in 3 jaars bei landspeku- 
lations. m mkn blot 10,000 dalrs n var tofredn dar- 
mit. m vul liebr h mndr peng n h mr tid t studir 
teutonish. m var at dt tid in grt tveifl vt m shul 
do mt di unregli artikls, ‘‘der, die, das, des, dem, 
den," n mt di fervirand dativ, subjunktiv n omlyds, 
vlk find’is in di deuch, skandinavish n hollandish old 
moderspraks. m vul gern bevaar so fiel af di old 
tungs als mogli in een regli fereensprak. 

a -c) — in 1903 in niam (sept.), nk m hd seln 
min land, vandern m vedr als een eenli fogl t d liv- 
haft stad takoma mt 10,000 dalrs (40,000 marks, odr 
krones). “nu”, denkn m, “h mi genog f een een- 
fak n slikt liv utom familie. m is blot heiraadn t 
teutonish. een mn ms h somting t lieb n ar- 
beid f, eidr familie, kunst odr veetenshap. tank 


teutonish. 


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god f hio goodu (goodness) t m. nuh m genog t 
lev af nk 57 jaarsi kamp mt armu. nu kn m lev f 
m heilig ideal n vrde af nyt t min folkstam n d velt”. 
m leikn nt t lev in d niu gegend rund lakros n hay, 
fdt dar var kein a vises, kein akademies, kein teatrs 
kein bookeri, odr gelernen mns n vbs dar f min 
geistli naering. vn m kmn t takoma leenen m ut 
min peng odr kopn som land, n hyrn 2 voonkamrs f 
t lev n shriv ds book in. 

lit geografie. takoma (tacoma) , in vshing- 
ton staat, is een stad af omtrent 80,000 invoonos, mt 
een diep stil havn n good doks f di grootest ships, an 
een arm af d stilmeer. takoma h eirnbaans, elek- 
trish straatbaans in al riktings, n vaks seer snel in 
befolking. takoma h meni grt dagli avises, teatrs 
n 5 stoki hotels. di straats is 100 foots breed n 
belegn mt sten, sement n asfalt. dar is een uni- 
versitat, hoegshools, geshaeftshools n een grt frie 
stadbookeri, mt inland n utland avises n monats- 
shrifts. frie burgoshools is overal in d stad. dar 
is een menge kirks af meni glaubs n spraks. handl 
mt inland n utland is livbaft. dar is 5 grt banks 
mt meni eenjens (millions) af hovdital (capital), 
dar is meni deuchos, englandos, skandinavos n hol- 
landos. men di deuch n skandinavish spraks vrde 
imr mr svak, fdt de hold nt genog tsmn, n deuch n 
skandinavish is t unregli n svaar t lern f andr nati- 
ons, vegn di unnaturli artikls, di dativs, akusativs, 
snbjunktivs n di omlyds. 

m h nu var ovr 3 jaars in takoma, een nu denk 
m imr an min reise t d old liebi europa. m vl gaa 
t berlin, koopenhavn, krishana n stokholm in femam 
(mai) 1907, om nits hindr m. 


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a — d) — een vunderful droem . 

(a wonderful dream). 

wilhelm n roosevelt , 

an d avond, omtrent ur il2, an d (du) 3a dag af 
eenam (jan.), 1905, an min 60a birtudag in d stad ta- 
koma’on, hd m d mst vunderful droem in min livtid. 

m anfangn an ds dag t reorganir d teutonish fer- 
eensprak f d 5a n lest mal, als m vul gern do smtng 
ekstra good n erineringvert an min 60a birtudag. m 
besoekn ok ds dag een svergish n deuch familie, mt 
hu m vrdt bekant in viskonsin in min kindu. d 
svergish mn, almkvist, var een lutherish pasto, n d 
deuch mn, kryger, var een avisman. vi hd ok in- 
beedn een joodish familie, moses, hu voonen tet 
(close, dicht) bei hr almkvist. omshon vi fertredn 
(represnted) 4 fershili spraks, deuch, svergish, nor- 
gish n joodish, var vi dok so glykli als t besit d mik- 
si english, als d gemeensam sprak, vlk vi al hd ler- 
nen als good burgos ms do; dt is, vi lernenbeid d ge= 
meensam londisprak n vio old moderspraks. hier 
in amrika, beid nord n syd, smelt di fershili gefolki* 
heids (nationalities) tsmn mt mndr old haat n forur- 
deels dan in europa. et kom hier mr an d person- 
liheid, sprak n beneml, dan an old geshiktes. vi 
denk mr hier an d komtid, dan an d fortid. 

vi samsprekn fiel om min reise fan takoma, in 
nordvestli usona (u. s. a.), t deuchland, holland, 
danmark, norge n s verge. vi sprekn om di grt mns 
keisr vilhelm n theodore roosevelt, samt om do klein 
zar nikolas, hu is nt instand t stop d morderi af di 
joods, hio eign best rusish underdanos (subjects) 

nk vi hd eetn, drinkn, sprekn, singn n dekla- 
mirn, so fiel als vi behagn, gaan m at 11 ur t min 
voonkamr nt fern af. m var bald in bed n slaapn 
soet in. nk een kort tid hd m d mst vunderful 


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droem in min levtid. m foel sekr dt kein mensh 
vl find anstoot at min droem, vegn di nams af di grt 
levand persons givn darin. m giv ja di nams mt 
oprikti fereering n akting, n kein mensh kan is 
gegn eerli respekt, utom evl aktergedenks. d daad- 
saak dt m hd droemen om de, bevis dt m h respekt- 
ful denkn om jene hoeg mns. 

omtrent halv 12, dreen m miselv om in d bed, n 
dn droemen m, dt dar standn at min rekt side een 
gros engl in veibgestalt, mt viet kleeds, lang haar, 
n gros vings. in shio rekt haend holdn shi een 
book af d ferbetern teutonish fereensprak, n in shio 
link haend een svert f selvferteid. du engl saed mt 
lyd stem, “vak op molee. m is d teutonish geist, 
hu svev ovr di herts n gedenks af di folks in europa 
n nordamrika. m h een boodshap (message) f u, 
t nem mt u fan di teutonish kinds af nordamrika t 
nordvesli europa. ds book is een boodshap fan di 
teutonish kinds in nordamrika t deo elters in nor- 
vestli n mideieuropa, om dt de ms fereen sn spraks, 
so dt di kinds n di elters vl imr ferstand eenandr in 
d komtid als de don in d oldtid. nem ds book mt 
u t europa, n lat et vederdryk’is, n mk et bekant 
mang di teutons. 

m droemen dt m vrdt so ershrekn. dt m var nt 
instand t beveg min tung, dn kmn een andr engl in 
mangestalt t d link side af min bed n saed, “is (be, 
sei) nt bang molee, m vensh t help u, n sprek f di 
svakos, hu eerli arbeid f een good menshlieband be- 
strev. min nam is theodore roosevelt. m is du 
usonaish (u. s. a.) geist, n lieb d teutonish spraks 
af min nederdeuch forfars. m vl sprek f u t da teu- 
tonish engl. 

roosevelt — (saed, vendand sg t da engl mt een 
aktverti beugmg.) uo herliheid, bhg t sag, vt dau 


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vl dt ds arm n helplos mn shl do n sag t d velt. 
hi is so ershrekn dt hi kn nt sprek, men m vl sprek f 
hi, n hi vl do vt m begeer, ven hi km t sigselv. 

engl — m vl dt uo ekselens shl help ds oprikti 
mn, n tel hi t gaa t denchland, holland, danmark, 
norge, sverge, n england, f t beed di teutonish elters 
in europa, fan deo teutonish kinds n fervantos in 
in usona, kanada, australia n sydafrika t vedr fer- 
een deo spraks, so dt al teutons kn ferstand eenandr 
in d tokom als deo forfars don in d oldtid. min 
frend hio hoeg majestat, keisr wilhelm, kn help hi 
mst, farvel. 

engl, roosevelt. — da teutonish engl, h nu fer- 
svindn n dauo ershrekenu, molee, is mndr. m vl 
vederhal (repeat) t dau, d grt boodshap fan da engl, 
vlk var, dt dau shl beed di elters n fervantos in old 
liebi europa fan deo kinds n fervantos in nordamrika 
australia n afrika t fereen deo old modertungs into 
een niu gemimsam modertung, vlk al teutons kn fer- 
stand in tokom. 

(hier fersvindn d engl). 

m droemen darnak, dt m vrdt fervandeln t een 
viet duv, n flyen fan d stilmeer kyst ovr nordamrika, 
ovr d atlantish meer, ovr england, holland n nord- 
deuchland t berlin. et var een lang n intresant 
fly. m var so myd nk min reise dt m muste utru 
miselv an d dak af d universitat bilding in berlin 
ovr nat. in d morgn flyen m vedr in duvgestalt t 
d dyrgardn, vor m krign frymaal (breakfest) mang 
di andr fogls, men de kun nt se m, f m var unsiktbar. 
m var fyrktli bang, dt di andr fogls vul biet mi. nk 
een kort tid flyen m an d dak af du avis, tageUatt 
n ruen nk een good ful maaltid. 

nk m hd beseen di kirks, teatrs, museums, 
shools, gardns n fabriks in berlin flyen m an d dak 
af d keiserli palas. 


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121 


do keisr hd een ekstra raad. 

m droemen dt m flyen door een opn vindu af 
d keiserli palas into d kamr, vor hio hoeg majestat, 
keisr wilhelm, h kaln tsmn een besondr raad, f t 
bedenk n besprek mt sn hoeg raadgivos, vt var bst t 
do mt d teutonish fereensprak. m sitn leik een duv 
undr d tish, men niman kun se mi, f m var unsiktbar. 

keisr wilhelm. — ( t sn raadgivos). m h kaln u, min hoeg 
n gelernen raadgivos tsmn, f t sprek om, vt is bst t do mt d 
teutonish fereensprak. m h niuli lesn een book om et, vlk h 
meni good idees in et, dt is vert t nakdenk. om mogli, vul een 
algm teutonish fereensprak vrde seer bekvem n mk deuchland 
mr dan bfr d universitat af d velt, n d mst grt bookmarket t 
oplikt d velt n mk vio koopleut b 2 kant in al londstreks. ds 
sprak af gemeen teutonish vords n romanish veetenshapli nams, 
kun mogshee, vrde studirn in di shools als een beitveig (by- 
branch) f erdbeshrivl, geshikte, kunst n veetenskap bei d side 
af vio eign modersprak. 2 leit fervant spraks kn gevis al leut 
lern in jungu. vt kn min hoeg raadgivos sag om teutonish? 

(at ds punkt, spredn m min duvvings n 
hypn fan undr d tish anto d top af een 
stool, unsiktbar). 

reikkanslo buelow. — uo hoeg keiserli majestat, nk min 
darfyrholdan, vul gevis een algm, leitlernen, eenfak, regli, selv- 
klar teutonish fereensprak vrde bekvem t vio ganz folkistam, n 
t d ganz menshu in literatur, velthandl n deplomatie; men m is 
dok bang, dt sodan een eenfak, regli n vellydand teutonish 
fereensprak mogte ferdraog vio old liebi modersprak, nk al 
kinds hd lernen t sprek et floedand in di folkishools. vn di 
maedns vaksn op, vul de ok sprek et t sn kinds, n dn vul dar 
entstand een niu modersprak, vlk vul f erdrang d old modersprak 
mitin 200 jaars. 

prof. dr. grimm. — uo majestat, m glaub dt vio tokomi 
kinds skul n kn lern beid d old n d niu moderspraks, n dn shul 
vi overlat t vio nakkomos, vlk af di 2 spraks de vl beihold als 
deo national tung. om ,, teutonish^ vul is instand t f erdrang 
vio old modertung, dn vul ,, panroman “ odr een andr romanish 
fereensprak ok is instand t ferdrang (crowd out) deuch, english, 
skandinavish n hollandish. om een niu, regli, eenfak n vellyd- 
and veltsprek is gefarli t vio modersprak, dn is et gevis mr klog 


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t annem een heimish teutonish fereensprak, dan een fremd latin- 
ish sprak. teutonish is virkli een ferbetem heimish sprak af 
vio eign folkist.am. een art platdeuch, vlk is mr aenli (similiar) 
t hollandish, skandinavish n english dan rein hoegdeuch. beid 
leibnitz n von bismark h raadn vio shrivos t innem mr platdeuch 
vorts into vio sprak. 

(nu spredn m min duvvings n roopn 
”amen“, men m var unhoerbar.) 

rabbi Salomon. — m tank uo majestat fan min ganz hert f 
d inbeeding (invitation) t ds special bespreking af du interna- 
tional sprakfrag. af al folkistams trakt vi joods mogshee, mr 
dan andr leut nk een veltsprak, vlk vi hop vul mk al nations, 
besondr rusland, mr broderli n menshli. et mk kein fershil t 
vi, om d veltsprak is teutonish odr romanish, vn et kn nur vrde 
virkli een veltsprak. vio joodish folk find’is in al londs. m 
glaub dok dt d teutonish fereensprak, vn ferbetem n annemen 
bei een algm teutonish kongres, vul h een btr utsikt t vrde velt- 
sprak, dan een romanish fereensprak, fdt di teutons is mr tal- 
rich n h mr dan 3 mals grootr utlondi handl. di gemeen 
grundvorts is ok mr aenli in di teutonish tungs dan in di roman- 
ish spraks, n darfyr, mr leit t fereen, ferstand, n infoer; als, 
english brother', deuch, bruder, skandinavish, holanddish n plat- 
duch broder. in di romanish spraks is d fershil mr groot; als, 
fransi, frere ; Spanish, hermano; italish, fradre. di romanos 
kn ok nt ferstand eenandr, utom besondr studium. 

redakto lessing. — m kn nt inse, uo majestat, varom een 
algm teutonish fereensprak vul nt is good f deuchland n f al vio 
fervant teutonish gefolks. m kan nt denk om eni gefarli, odr 
nakdeelish folge fan anneming sodan sprak f, at mnst, erdbe- 
shrivl, geshikte, kunst n veetenshap, om vio folkistam in hol- 
land, belgia, di 3 skandinavish londs, samt ostreich n sveis, vul 
ok annem et. om england n nordamrika shul vis sg t is t kon- 
servativ, vul vi dok h so grt n leitlernen sprak, dt vi kun op- 
nem d kamp gegn d svaar n gemiksn english, als veltsprak. 
vio nutidi moderspraks kun dok ferbliv als folkispraks, veil d 
eenfak, regli n ferbetem teutonish fereensprak kun bruk’is als 
een niu hoegdeuch, nk al teutons hd lemen et, n leikn et good 
genog, t annem et als deo gemeensam national sprak, sonst 
(else) kun al teutons nur studir et f erdbeshrivl n geshikte, n 
Jbruk deo fershili cld modertungs f al andr behoevs. 

(at ds oogblik flyen m omkring d kramr 
n tankn god.) 


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shio majestat, da keisera — m h, mt intresse, horkn t uo 
overleging, om d teutonish fereensprak, n m h ok lesn d niu 
teutonish book af hr. molee, hu h een grt lieb f platdeuch. als 
ds sprak beru fiel an d gefoel n gesinning, glaub m dt di veibs 
shul ok mitsprek. et vul vrde seer bekvem f vio deuch folk, 
so vel als f vio teutonish nabors, om vi al hd een leit eenfak n 
regli gemeensam sprak. vio books n avises vul dn vrde mr 
lesn in di utlonds. deuch is svaar t lern t fremd leut, vegn di 
unregli der die das des dem den, n vegn di svaar deuch dativs, 
akusativs, infinitiv, subjuntivs, omlyds n personal endings in 
di tidvorts. mi kn erinr ho svaar et var f m, t lern di unregli- 
heids n utnemls in di english n fransi spraks. nu, om et var 
mogli f vi t annem een mr eenfak n regli gemeensam sprak, 
glaub m et vul vrde een segn (blessing) f vio kinds in d tokom. 

et vul vrde mr leit f al modrs t erzie sn kinds, n vio nak- 
komos vul nt is dvingn t studir so meni spraks, om de hd d 
gemeensam teutonish. m leik besondr di 4 artikls in niu teu- 
tonish, do, da, du, di. de is al vellydand, n vn dar is 4 artikls, 
is d sprak mr klar n livhaft, n d sami artikl, behoev nt veder- 
hal’is so seer oft, als vn dar is nur een artikl, als d english 
”the“. vn vio liebi hollandish n skandinavish nabors is vilig 
t annem d teutonish fereensprak into deo shools f erdbeshrivl n 
geshikte, dn glaub m dt vio deuch folk n regiring shul help d 
good saak forvards, so snel als mogli. 

(m droemea dt m flyen t da hoeg n 
liebverti keisera, n legn m at shio foots.) 

kronprins — uo mojestats, fadr, moder n vio hoeg 
raadgivos, vn een gemeensam teutonish fereensprak var virkli 
mogli t gradvis infoer in al teutonish shools n londs door d stu- 
dir af erdbeshrivl n geshikte, dn glaub m et vul is een good tng 
f vio liebi faderland. om vi vl nt annem een grt teutonish 
fereensprak, vl trusheinli, een andr veltsprak is annemen, n dn 
vl vi imr h een svaar n unregli sprak, vlk kn nimr vrde een 
virkli veltsprak, f et is nu t svaar n unregli f utlandos t lern. 

om al teutons fereenen sg om een eenfak n regli gemeen- 
sam sprak, vul et vrde mr lesn n sprekn in sydamrika sovel 
als in vio naborlonds, russia, ungaria, italia n frans. et vul is 
mr leit t infoer et in vio kolonis. mt sodan grt teutonish n 
leitlernbar gemensam sprak, kun vi h d fergnygan t sprek et 
mt al vio fervant nations, m denk et vul is een grt eer f 
deuchland t gaa foran n help infoer d teutonish fereensprak, at 
mnst, f d studie af erdbeshrivl n geshikte, om vio good n 
eerverti nabors in ostreich, sveis, holland n di 3 skandinavish 


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londs vul ok infoer et, als een shoolstudie. m hop ok england n 
di fereenen staats af nordamrika vl anmem et. 

reikkanslo buelow — om uo majestat shul glaub dt et 
is eni gefar dt, een andr fremdarti veltsprak mogte fielleit (pro- 
bably) annem’is, durand ds jaarhundr, vul et gevis is btr f d 
deuch folk n f vio teutonish folkistam t annem d forslagn n fer- 
betein teutonish fereensprak. et is d mst eenfak in sprakleer n 
d mst selvklar n ekonomish in vortshat af al di niu spraks. 
teutonish h ok d mst rektferdi grundlag f een veltsprak. di 
20,000 gevoonli vorts shl is teutonish, n di 100,000 veetenshapli 
vorts shl is als nu fan di romanish n griekish spraks. et is vel 
tru, dt meni af di teutons ferstand romanish vorts, men nt d 
grt masse af d folk, fdt meni af vio folk h studirn, latin, 
shul de nt straf ’is darfyr, n dving’is t annem een lautr roman- 
ish sprak als veltsprak. di teutonos h omtrent 100 eenjens 
(millions) mr leut dan di romanos, n mr dan 3 mals mr ships n 
velthandl. darfyr glaub m dt d tokomish veltsprak ms is ba- 
sirn an di teutonish vorts, so fern als d 20,000 gevoonli vorts 
angaa. om di teutons hd nur 10,000 gemeen vorts tsmn, kun 
de ferstand eenandr. 

m denk et is een glykli omstand dt d forslag f een gemeen- 
sam fereensprak h kmn fan di foreenen staats, vlk is d groo- 
test teutonish land, et vl giv d forslag een mr international 
karaktr n h grt influs an di amrikanos, t gaa tsmn mt deuch- 
land, holland n skandinavia. do ferfato af teutonish, hr molee, 
is af norgish n deuch afstaming. een mr international anfang 
kn mn nt denk sg. deuchland ms dok gaa foran, vegn eto hoeg 
gelernenu in spraks, n vegn eto grt idialismu. utom help fan 
di fershili teutonish regirings, kn kein fereensprak annem’is. 
om nt di deuch fyrstos hd helpn martin luther, vul d ’’reforma- 
tion" nt h gelingn. om nt keisr konstantin hd mkn d kristli 
religion d staat religion, at dt tid, vul mogshee paulus’on pre- 
dikan nt h gelingn, so vel als et don. om eni folkistam h d rekt 
n d makt t infoer een veltsprak, ms al gefolks inse dt di teutons 
tsmn h dt rekt n dt makt, utom t shad eni andr grt folkistam mt 
d sami rekt. 

mi dromen dt m lign at di foots af da 
gud keisera, n seen vekselvis at do grt 
keisr n do kronprins.) 

hio majestat, keisr wilhelm — min hoeg n gelernen raad- 
givos, m vensh dt u undersoek ds grt veltsprakifrag, n lat m 
veet uo eraktings een andr tid. m h dok lesn n hoern so fiel 
om ”d teutonish fereensprak", dt m kn nu inse, dt et vul vrde 


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seer bekvem f vio ganz teutonish folkistam, evn om vi blot in- 
foern et in di shools f erdbeshrivl n geshikte, so dt al kun lern t 
ferstand n sprek et, so vel als deo old moderspraks. vn al teu- 
tons annem et f geografistudie, n darbei mk et international, 
vul trusheinli di romanish n rusish nations ok benyt d sami algm 
geografie in di hoegr shools, so dt d ganz bildn velt vul ferstand et. 

m vensh meni af min professos vul erortr ds frag n dryk sn 
meenings in di avises n monatshrifts, n darbei kn vi km t mr 
klaru n national bevustu angaali een algm teutonish f ereen- 
sprak. deuchland kn nt gaa aleen in ds underneml. m vl bald 
utsend een circular briv t al teutonish majestats n presidents, 
t utfind vt utsikt dar is f d anneml af een gemeensam velt shool- 
sprak. et vul help d saak fiel cm di teutonish gesantos t deuch- 
land, vul hold een erortering af ds frag, als een forloopi kon- 
gres. om et vis sg dt d teutonish fereensprak, at mnst f erdbe- 
skrvl n geshikte, h findn anklang, vl mogli shio majestat, wil- 
helmine af holland, inbeed (invite) di teutonish regirings t send 
delegats t een algm teutonish sp rakkongres, t eenir sg an d 
bookstaving, sprakleer n vortshat af 20,000 vorts door een 3 
liras (1 ) meertal, n darnak bereed een shoolbook an algm erdbe- 
shirvl mt 300 feerkortels n mt een anhang (appendix) om good 
beneml( ettiguette), om eerliheid, helpsamu, di 10 gebids, n ho t 
bevar korperli gesundu, nsf. 

m droemen nu dt m hd hoern so meni 
gud tings in d deuch palas, dt min hert var 
so ful, dt m kun nt uthold mr. 
m spredn nu min duvvings n buikn so hoefli als m kun t deo 
majestats, do keisr, da keisera, do kronprins n di hoeg raadgi- 
vos n saed ”god bevar d good deuch keiserli familie n deuch- 
land, d land af selvdenkos, d land af d ’’reformation”, god be- 
var d land af martin luther, af kant, goethe, schiller, lessing, 
heine, schley er, Schopenhauer grimm, homboldt, fredrik do 
grto, bismark, moltke, keisr wilhelm do grto, n keisr wilhelmi 
2a, do viso (wise one). 

m denkn bei miself, ”an d festland af europa, ms eidr 
deuchland, odr rusia spiel d hovdrolle. et is ja gevis btr 
f d velt, dt deuchland vrde mr sterk dan rusia; dtdi bildn teu- 
tons h d overhand, dan di slavonos n mongolos. al festlandi 

teutons shul mk een bund f selvferteid“. 

m flyen dn t d slot af deo majestats af danmark, norge 
sverge, dn rg t dt af holland, england, n rg t theodore roosevelt 
in d ”viet huus“ in vashington, usona (u. s. a.), n darnak t 
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sumiring (summary). 

m glaub nu, dt m h bevisn fuldstandi, bei teori n praktis, 
dt teutonish kn bruk’is f al menshli zveks, f vlk een sprak 
behoev’is. m h oversetn fan d bibl, m h beedn n predikn in 
teutonish; als, ”d heer’on beed“, n min artikl, ”om 
kirks n religion**, (s. 85). m h ok shrivn geografie, 
biografie n dikt (poesie) in et; als, ”d glykli land** mh 
ok shrivn somting leik filosofie n veetenshap in teutonish; f bsp, 
in min erortering (discussion) om M spr akleer, forsilbs, 
n n a k s i 1 b s“. vn mn vl shriv mr om filosofie n veetenshap, 
behoev mn blot t inshuv (einschieben) mr romanish n griekish 
veetenshapli vorts, als do’is nu in deuch, skandinavish n holland- 
ish. di heufi gemeen n ferbindand vorts bliv (remain) di sami 
in filosofie n veetenshap, als in gevoonli samsprekan, handl, 
deplomatie n dikting. 

vn mn vl shriv teutonish brivs, odr een afhandling, kn 
mn bruk di teutonish gemit (material), nak ds teutonish sprak- 
leer, geist n forbild, odr vn mn h nt vorts genog in d nuisand 
(present) teutonish, kn mn bruk di old english, deuch odr skan- 
dinavish vorts, until een sprakkongres h utvidn (extended) d 
vortshat t 20,000 vorts. vn mn irshuv english, deuch odr 
skandinavish vorts, nak d lond af do ferfato, kn mn gevoonli 
ferstand di inshuvn vorts fan d samhang, odr mn kn opsoek d 
bedyd af di niu vorts in een betrefi leksikon. 

et vul is een glykli omstand om een nation vul mk teu- 
tonish ganz national. m glaub dt om di teutons fereenen sg 
an een gemeensam teutonish sprak, vul skandinavia is d eena 
(first, erste) folk t infoer et ganz, nk 50 jaars af beist.udi f ge- 
ografie n geshikte, om deuchland, ostreik, sveis, belgia nholland 
vul blot fersprek t studir geografie in et 30 minuts jede shool- 
dag in al geografie klases. et vl betal sg f deuchland aleen t 
fereenfak sn sprak. d danish leut kn, utom tveifl, ferstand 
teutonish mst leit, fdt so meni af de ferstand danish, deuch n 
svergish, n danish is ok seer fiel leik hollandish n platdeuch. 
at een tid var platdeuch, besondr undr d regiring af erik af 
pommeren, sprekn at d hof af danmark, n bei di hoegr beamtos 
mr dan danish. de denkn een tid sogar t mk platdeuch d nati- 
onal sprak als di hollandos h don. 

di 3 skandinavish folk is besvaarn (afflicted) mt spraks, 
sprekn af t venig leut. dar is meni veetenshapli books n en- 
syklopedias, vlk loon sg nt t ferleg, (publish), f dt dar is t 
venig koopos (market). ds omstand vl naturli mk di 3 skan- 


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dinavish londs n holland mr villig t annem een grootr fereen- 
sprak. 

in femam, (mai) nekst jaar (1907), vl m gaa t europa, 
n lev dar d rest af min tid, fdt dar is mr intresse f een teuton- 
ish fereensprak in europa dan in amrika. norge n deuchland 
is di londs fan vor (wo) min forfars kmn. m glaub dok dt 
danmark vul is min bst virkiplas, fdt danmark is in so livhaft 
forkeer (omgang) mt deuchland, norge n sverge, n stand ok in 
good f erhold mt england. 

min afsikt is t koop een landgut (farm, gaard) f een 
40,000 krones (marks), vlk vul giv m een inkom af 2,000 odr 
2,400 krones jaarli, so lang m lev, n nk dt vul m giv et t d uni- 
versitat in koopenhavn, f t utnam (appoint) een af deo professos 
(hoegleeros) t hold een fordrag, af mnst 5000 vorts in gunst af 
d teutonish fereensprak, jede jaar an d 3a dag af eenam (jan), 
n lat it overset’is into danish, deuch e english n inryk’is, at 
mnst in een danish, norgish, deuch n english avis odr monat- 
shrift, jede jaar. f tferstand di niu vorts, kn di lesos fertelMs 
om di vortsliste in teutonish. do professo kn ok nem intredpries 
fan di tohoeros. nak een algm teutonish fereensprak is an- 
nemen, shl do ervaenen professo hold fordrag ovr d teutonish 
literatur, n om d bst utdrykings, n ho t spred teutonish mang 
utlondi, hoegshools, f imr in d tokom, so als t mk ds fereen- 
sprak, mt ferbetring n korrigiring, so international als mogli. 

om deuchland, england n amrika shl nt vensh t anslut sg 
t teutonish, at mnst f geografie studie, dn shl do forervaenen 
professo, hold fordrags in gunst af een skandinavish sprakfer- 
eening, mit holland n island om mogli. do saed professo kn 
shriv sn fordrag in sn frietids, een 3 t 4 monats forut n les et 
ovr so dat hi kan forles et floedand n deutli. et vul ok is good 
om hi kun sprek et t een klas eenmal d veek, t yb sg in sprek- 
ing teutonish. 

et vul is een seer good tng f vio nakkomos om sm rich 
mns n vbs, vul oprikt sodan fordragfonds in andr shools in eu- 
ropa n amrika, mt di nams af di good givos. et vl h mr good 
influs an d velt, dan t oprikt een bookeri odr kolleg. hu vl do 
et? om m var een rich mn, kun m h don mr good in ds rikt- 
ing, men m kn blot giv d velt min tid, intellekt n hert mt nur 
venig peng t giv. 

m h meni anbefeels fan avises, tidshrifts, professos, 
pastos, anvalts, ferfatos n riktos in gunst af ds teutonish fereen- 
sprak mang al teutonish leut n spraks, men m vl nt infoer de 
hier, als m veet dt di hoeg n gerlernen heeren, fruen n regir- 


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ings, vl dok overdenk ds grs saak selv, n shriv darom in di avis- 
es n tidshrifts, n korrigir min feils. 

m hop n beed, dt min livarbeid vl find een frendli n good- 
modi emfang mang di teutonish professos, pastos, redaktos n 
shrivos, samt mang vio hoeg keisers, kings, kingas n presidents, 
f t drag di teutons tsmn in sprak, pengvesn, maat, vikt, kleed- 
ing n veetenshap. — amen. 


inhold (contents). 


introductory, side 2. — honest basis ... 8 

teutonish plan 11 

e 4 fundamental principles (§9) 16 

value of basic words 19. — english on english . 23 

english language a national misfortune ... 26 

e english language, e poor man’s enimy ... 32 

german, Scandinavian n dutch defects ... 35 

norway t introduce first . 37 

high politics n missionary work 39 

continental teutons 40. — low-ger. words . . 42 

bookstafing 47 

sprakleer 49. — di 800 grundvorts 52 

evangeli af heiligo matheus 60 

naksilbs 71. — gros forbookstafs 81 

ferkortls 83. — old literatur 83. — om religion 85 

pastors t arbeid f een fereensprak 86 

d kort skandinavish passiv silb, ”is“ .... 89 
ekstra vortliste 90. — molee’on vandrings . . 99 
50 ferkortls 100. — een vunderful droem . . 118 

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ferbetringa, 

nak mi had drykn en bindn dis book, lesn mi, 
liier en dar, fan fershili spraka, fyr to se vilk var di 
meest vellydande. mi beopaktn den dat vio liebi 
teutonish spraka ha nit genog vokala fyr velkling. 
vi al vensh nit nur to mak teutonish “regli, selfklar, 
rein en ekonomish”, men ok ‘‘vellydande,’’ so dat 
kein andr folkstam vil vorde instand to mak een betr 
fereensprak. mi ha, darfyr, beraadn mi mit geler- 
nen englandos, deuchos, skandinavos en hollandos 
om di ferbetringa givn untn . de denkn al dat et vul 
is een good ferandring in teutonish. al di andr 
vorta en regia ferbliv als de is; dus— • 

1) meertalbilding . set “s’’ nak vokala, en 
set “a” nak konsonanta; so “ een frit , 2 frus ; een dag , 
2 daga. (“a” is oft beid du latinish en du skandina- 
vish meertalteekn). 

2) “and, heid , ion, tat, hav ” ferandr’is to “ande, 
hei, io, ta, ha”; so, singande (singend. singing); her- 
lihei (herliheid); natio, (nation), natioli (national) nati- 
olihei (nationalitat) universita (universitat), vi ha (vi 
hav). “ha” is seer oft hoern mang di skandinavos; 
als, me ha tvo hesta” (vi ha 2 paarda). 

italiash, esperanto, japanish en finish ha to fiel 
endvokala. man vorde myd fan di evig vederkee- 
rande “a, o, u, i” ‘‘teutonish’’ vil nu hav unge- 
l'aer so meni endvokala als in griekish, en vorde vo- 
kalrich genog, mit sin moderat afveksling af vokala 
en konsonanta. vi mus dok erinr dat du best eig- 
enshap in jede sprak is ‘"doorsiktihei, reglihei en 
ekonomie.” in femam (mai) dis jaar, 1907, hop mi 
to gaa to du “musa stud ”, berlin to lev, en vorde in 
her lino- 


uo velvenshande, elias molie. 


















































































































































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